FROM THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING AUTHOR
'An unputdownable thriller about corrupt power and sex' Sunday Telegraph
'Guaranteed to keep you awake' The Times
A body washes up on the deserted coastline of America's most exclusive holiday retreat. But it's no open-and-shut case of suicide. The death of Robert McAra is just the first piece of the jigsaw in an extraordinary plot that will shake the very foundations of international security.
For McAra was a man who knew too much. As ghostwriter to one of the most controversial men on the planet - Britain's former prime minister, holed up in a remote ocean-front house to finish his memoirs - he stumbled across secrets which cost him his life.
When a new ghostwriter is sent out to rescue the project it could be the opportunity of a lifetime. Or the start of a deadly assignment propelled by deception and intrigue - from which there will be no escape . . .
'Brilliantly persuasive, right up to the last page of its astonishing and unpredictable conclusion' Economist
'Truly thrilling' Sunday Times
By:
Robert Harris
Imprint: Arrow Books Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 198mm,
Width: 128mm,
Spine: 24mm
Weight: 289g
ISBN: 9780099527497
ISBN 10: 0099527499
Pages: 416
Publication Date: 03 July 2008
Audience:
General/trade
,
ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Introduction; Heidi E. Grasswick I Intersections: Feminism, Epistemology, and Science Studies Epistemology in the Twenty-First Century: Why Feminist Epistemology Can Claim a Central Place; Phyllis Rooney Contextualism in Feminist Epistemology and Philosophy of Science; Kristina Rolin Postcolonial Philosophies of Science: Gender Issues; Sandra Harding Up to two of the following five essays: Third Wave Materialism: Feminist Epistemology After Feminist Postmodernism; Iris van der Tuin Information, Interference, and Interdisciplinarity in Feminist Technoscience; Ellen Moll A Feminist Account of Propositional Knowledge; Evelyn Brister Feminist epistemology and Justification: Has Feminist Empiricism Won?; Edrie Sobstyl Naturalist Perspectivism and the Status of Normativity; Katrina Mitcheson II Democracy and Diversity in Knowledge Practices Gendered Perspectives in Scientific Communities: Deep and Shallow Diversity; Carla Fehr Is Adversarial Democratic Science the Right Model for Feminist Science?; Kristen Intemann Standpoint Matters: Epistemic Justice and Employment Equity; Alison Wylie Up to two or three of the following six essays: Public Bodies, Private Knowledge: Toward an Embodied, Intersubjective Approach to Epistemology; Helen Anderson Making Strange? Derrida and Harding on the Role of the Stranger in Democratic Knowing; Karen Houle Who's the Expert?; Mia Liinason More than Skin Deep: Situated Communities and the Case of Agent Orange in Viet Nam; Nancy McHugh Diversity and Dissent in Medicine: Lessons from Feminist Social Epistemology; Kirstin Borgerson Making Values Explicit: Feminist Standpoint Theory in the Sciences; Sharon Crasnow III Knowing Selves, Knowing Others 'They Treated Him Well': Fact, Fiction, and the Politics of Knowledge; Lorraine Code One or two of the following three essays: Agency, Understanding and the Self; Gaile Polhaus The Importance and Feasibility of Experiential Knowledge; Devora Shapiro Testimonial Disembodiment: Contemporary Accounts in the Epistemology of Testimony; Alexa Schriempf IV Epistemologies of Resistance Liberating Feminist Epistemologies; Nancy Tuana Epistemic Shifts: Advocacy Research, and Resistant Negotiation; Sarah Lucia Hoagland Sharing Knowledge: Querying the Norms; Heidi E. Grasswick Up to one of the following: Testimonial Smothering and Epistemic Resistance; Kristie Dotson Bibliography Index
Robert Harris is the author of Fatherland, Enigma, Archangel, Pompeii and Imperium, all of which were international bestsellers. His work has been translated into thirty-seven languages. After graduating with a degree in English from Cambridge University, he worked as a reporter for the BBC's Panorama and Newsnight programmes, before becoming political editor of the Observer and subsequently a columnist on the Sunday Times and the Daily Telegraph. He is married to Gill Hornby and they live with their four children in a village near Hungerford.
Reviews for The Ghost
The Ghost is arguably the finest novel yet to have emerged from the so-called Age of Terror... This is an important book about the major issues of our time * Mail on Sunday * A cracking good yarn... His writing is taut with wit and cleverness * Financial Times * Robert Harris's latest thriller is more than a fun read: it is a super-duper, double fun bag-sized read thanks to his masterful plotting * Daily Telegraph * Truly thrilling * Sunday Times * A master of the intelligent thriller... The Ghost is Harris back on sparkling form * The Times *
- Short-listed for British Book Awards: Sainsbury's Popular Fiction Award 2008
- Short-listed for Irish Book Awards: RTE Radio 1's The Tubridy Show Listeners' Choice Award 2008
- Shortlisted for British Book Awards: Sainsbury's Popular Fiction Award 2008.
- Shortlisted for Irish Book Awards: RTE Radio 1's The Tubridy Show Listeners' Choice Award 2008.
- Shortlisted for RTE Radio 1's The Tubridy Show Listeners' Choice Award 2008.
