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The Ghost (Harris novel)
''The Ghost'' is a contemporary political thriller by the best-selling English novelist and journalist Robert Harris. The novel has been adapted into a film, directed by Roman Polanski, which was released in 2010. Polanski and Harris wrote the screenplay together.
==Background==
In 2007 British prime minister Tony Blair resigned. Harris, a former Fleet Street political editor, dropped his other work to write the book. The ghost of the title refers both to a professional ghostwriter, whose lengthy memorandum forms the novel, and to his immediate predecessor who, as the action opens, has just drowned in mysterious circumstances.
The dead man had been ghosting the autobiography of a recently unseated British prime minister named Adam Lang, a thinly disguised version of Blair.〔(Review in ''The Observer'' )〕 The fictional counterpart of Cherie Blair is depicted as a sinister manipulator of her husband. So astonishing are the implied allegations of the ''roman à clef'' that, had it concerned a lesser figure and were Harris a less eminent novelist, Britain's libel laws might have rendered publication impossible: Harris told ''The Guardian'' before publication, "The day this appears a writ might come through the door. But I would doubt it, knowing him." The thriller acquires an added ''frisson'' from the fact that Harris was an early and enthusiastic backer of Blair and a donor to New Labour funds.
The ''New York Observer'', headlining its otherwise hostile review ''The Blair Snitch Project'', commented that the book's "shock-horror revelation" was "so shocking it simply can't be true, though if it were it would certainly explain pretty much everything about the recent history of Great Britain."〔
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