I was online, I addressed an email to myself, attached the manuscript file, and pressed Send.
Robert Harris, The Ghost Writer, 2007, p. 33
5.2 Adam Lang
Appear quite convincing and authoritative. Super busy public figure, emotional, ambitious, and sports hobby.
It can be seen quoted below:
I’d anticipated that my biggest problem on the first day would be physically getting Adam Lang into a room and
keeping him there for long enough to start interviewing him. But the strange thing was that when we reached the house,he
was already waiting forme . Amelia had decided we should use Rhinehart’s office, and we found the former prime
minister, wearing a dark green tracksuit, sprawled in the big chair opposite the desk, one leg draped over the arm. He was
flicking through a history of World War Two that he’d obviously just taken down from the shelf. A mug of tea stood
on the floor beside him. His trainers had sand on their soles: I guessed he must have gone for a run on the beach.
“Hi, man,” he said, looking up at me. “Ready to start?” “Good morning,” I said. “I just need to sort out a few things
first.” “Sure. Go ahead. Ignore me.”
Robert Harris, The Ghost Writer, 2007, p. 33 A charismatic high opolitician and tough yet vulnerable. Not a powerful
politician until he met his wife, Ruth. Dare to take a big decisions to wrestle with the political world. In fact, if it is examined further, when he was in Cambridge
University Adam Lang did not show much interest in politics. It can be seen quoted below:
And that’s it—I’m in love. And it quickly becomes clear that the best way of getting to see her again is to take one of her
leaflets and turn up the next Tuesday evening, or whenever it is, and join the local party. Which I do.”
“And this is Ruth?” “This is Ruth.”
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“And if she’d been a member of a different political party?” “I’d have gone along and joined it just the same. I wouldn’t
havestayed in it,” he added quickly. “I mean obviously this was the start of a long political awakening for me—bringing
out values and beliefs that were already present but were simply dormant at that time.
Robert Harris, The Ghost Writer, 2007, p. 42
Character of the Prime Minister is quite temperamental, complete with a furrow, gentle style.
It can be seen quoted below:
Lang reluctantly let go of me and I fastened my seat belt. He did the same. He glanced out of the window at the terminal,
then back at me, appalled, as we dipped gracefully onto the runway.
“My God, you’ve already told someone, haven’t you?” I could feel myself turning scarlet.
“No,” I said. “You have.”
“I haven’t.” On the tape I sound as feeble as a child caught red-handed.
He leaned forward again. “Who have you told?” Looking out at the dark forest beyond the perimeter of the
airport, where anything could belurking, it seemed like the only insurance policy I had.
“Richard Rycart,” I said. That must have been a devastating blow to him. He must have
known then that it was the end ofeverything. In my mind’s eye I see him still, like one those once grand but now
condemned apartment blocks, moments after the demolition charges have been exploded: for a few seconds, the façade
remains bizarrely intact, before slowly beginning to slide. That was Lang. He gave me a long blank look and then
subsided back into his seat. Robert Harris, The Ghost Writer, 2007, p. 132
5.3 Ruth Lang
