The ghost directed by roman polanski biography
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The Ghost (novel)
2007 novel by Robert Harris
For film based on the novel, see The Ghost Writer (film).
The Ghost is a 2007 political thriller by the best-selling English novelist and journalist Robert Harris.
In 2010, the novel was adapted into a film, The Ghost Writer, directed by Roman Polanski and starring Ewan McGregor and Pierce Brosnan, for which Polanski and Harris co-wrote the screenplay.
The ghost directed by roman polanski biography
Plot summary
Most of the plot takes place on Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, where former British Prime Minister Adam Lang has been holed up in the holiday home of his billionaire American publisher to turn out his memoirs on a deadline.
Lang's former aide, Mike McAra, was struggling to ghostwrite Lang's memoirs until he drowned when he apparently fell off the Woods Hole ferry. The fictional narrator of The Ghost, whose name is never given, is hired to replace him.
His girlfriend walks out on him over his willingness to take the job: "She felt personally betrayed by him