When his long-term aide drowns, Britain's former prime minister is holed up in an isolated, ocean-front villa in America, striving to finish his memoirs. A professional ghostwriter is dispatched to save the project, a man more accustomed to working with fading rock stars and lesser celebrities than former world leaders. The ghost soon learns that his renowned new client has secrets from his past that are coming back to haunt him - secrets with the capacity to kill. Robert Harris is back at his riveting best with the most contentious new thriller of the decade.