Character Analysis: The Ghost By Robert Harris

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“The Ghost”
Author: Robert Harris

INTRODUCTION:
Robert Harris wrote an interesting novel or story the title is “The Ghost”. Robert Harris is the author of “Impremium, Pompeii, Enigma, Fatherland, and Selling Hitler”. He has been a television correspondent with the BBC and a newspaper columnist for the Sunday times (London) and the daily telegraph. His novels have sold more than Ten Million copies and Ten Translated into thirty-seven languages. He lives in Berkshire, England, with his wife and four children. The role of the ghost-writer is to make the Client looking good. Not to uncover the truth. But what happen of the client is major political figure, and the truth is to change the causes of the history. Adam Lang is the former prime minister of Britain. That he write his memoirs.

SUMMARY: The novelist Robert Harris friend of Tony
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Harris novel is recent British prime Minister who have wife”Thin Black Eyebrows” a temper that can flash-fly meat. His genius and it’s to “refresh and elevate the clinch of politics through sheer force he’s performance”. In the dowing street had a slavishly aligned of his country in the United States and it’s “War on Terror” asgoing so far an authorize secret British contribution to the America’s “Extraordinary rendition” and they torture the suspects. Radiates piety and self regard that he have equally measured a stal wart Christian present him-self. He was the Prime minister stuck in london’s transport, he killed many innocent people and some of that citizens content he “Toturing and Bombing and Lying” that he make a war criminal. This man is usually cocky muscular, war of strain that produce exhantion natural, yet his efforts, out of office that make dash of loads by lecturing producing in the US of his memoirs.The memoirs include the title chapters who’s signal he what sees as the triumphs, “changing the party” in the northern Ireland and the special relationship of that challenge of terror.

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