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Is It Hatchet or Fiction?(Periscope; Books)('The Ghost'; Robert Harris)(Brief article)(Book review)

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Byline: William Underhill

Picture a former British prime minister who got mired in a Middle Eastern war alongside the United States. He's charming, but glib for some tastes. By his side: a manipulative wife.

Surely it's Tony Blair. Well, not quite. It's Adam Lang in "The Ghost," a new thriller from British novelist Robert Harris, which reviewers say is "a fictionalized attempt to stab Tony and Cherie Blair firmly in the front."

It's a well-paced tale of wrongdoing in high places, but the familiar lead characters are what excited critics. Harris, an author of upmarket thrillers ...

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