Ghost Flashcards

1
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Book quoted from at the start of each chapter

A

Ghostwriting - Andrew Crofts

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2
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“I am not I; thou are not he or she; they are not they”

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Evelyn Waugh - Brideshead Revisited

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3
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Previous ghostwriter, now dead

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Mike James McAra

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4
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Where does the Martha’s Vineyard ferry travel between

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Woods Hole and Vineyard Haven

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5
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Car McAra was driving

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tan coloured Ford Escape

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6
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Ford Escape belongs to

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Martin S Rhinehart

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7
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Where was McAra’s body found?

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Lambert’s Cove

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8
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Where was McAra from?

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Balham

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9
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Agent’s name

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Rick Riccardelli

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10
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Name of former PM

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Adam Peter Bennet Lang

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11
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Head of Rhinehart’s publishing company

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John Maddox

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12
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Lang’s lawyer

A

Sidney Kroll

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13
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Ghost’s editor

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Roy Quigley

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14
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“What sells a book is …”

A

heart

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15
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What is the Ghost mugged for?

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Senator’s manuscript - One Out Of Many

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16
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Lang’s PA

A

Amelia Bly

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17
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Main town on Martha’s Vineyard

A

Edgartown

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18
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Hotel in Edgartown

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Lighthouse View

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19
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Operation Tempest

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Four Brits, seized in Peshawar. One (Ashraf) died under interrogation

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20
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First Mrs Rhinehart

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On the board of MOMA

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21
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Second Mrs Rhinehart

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Bollywood actress

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22
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Lang’s wife

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Ruth Lang, nee Capel

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23
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Vietnemese housekeepers

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Dep and Duc - Duc is the man

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24
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Test for a novel or film …

A

Seaplane test

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Ex-foreign secretary
Richard Rycart
26
Rock star Lang's stayed with on Mustique
Christy Costello
27
Jet owned by ...
Hallington
28
Song of Costello's Lang sings
Once In A Lifetime, 1977
29
Where was Lang living in London when he met Ruth?
Lambeth
30
Where was Lang brought up?
Leicester
31
Lang's parents
Father a builder, mother a teacher
32
Lang's mother's book
A Thing Of Beauty
33
Title role at 17
Marlowe's Dr Faustus
34
What did Lang study at Cambridge
Economics
35
Editorial in Times when Lang steps down
Kindly Leave The Stage
36
Word Lang adds to press release
Domestic
37
Director of the Adam Lang Archive Centre in Cambridge
Dr Julia Crawford-Jones
38
Widow who saw lights in Lambert's Cove
Annabeth Wurmbrand
39
Martha's Vineyard reminds Ruth of ...
Cornwall
40
Barry's reading
Harry Potter
41
Where was Adam and Ruth's wedding?
Marylebone Registry OfficeAndy Martin - Best man
42
Honeymood
Ruth's parents' cottage, Hay on Wye
43
Rhinehart's Vinery
Napa Valley
44
First rule of politics
Never lose touch with your base
45
Where does the Ford Escape take The Ghost to?
Paul Emmett's house in Belmont
46
Security firm at Emmett's
Cyclops
47
Paul Emmett's President Emeritus of ...
Arcadia Institution
48
Arcadia reception attended by Lang
Claridges
49
Where was Emmett on the 11th and 12th of January?
Colorado - Aspen Institute
50
Professor Emmett's posts
Harvard (Ruth), Howard T Polk III Professor of Foreign relations
51
Hallington's CEO
Arthur Prussia
52
Airbase in Poland
Stare Kiejkuty
53
Torture method used on suspects
Waterboarding
54
What agency is Emmett supposed to be a member of
CIA
55
What is on the board of the man waiting at La Guardia
Mike McAra
56
Pseudonym used by Ghost at hotel
Clive Dixon
57
Rycart's weakness
Vanity
58
The Member for Michigan
Reginald Giffen - gave up his seat for Lang
59
What is Lang drinking on the plane?
Brandy
60
How much is a Gulfstream four?
$40m
61
How many planes does Hallington have?
Five
62
Lang's assassin
George Arthur Boxer
63
"Who scorns his own life is lord of yours"
Seneca
64
Lang's funeral
Westminster Abbey
65
Ruth Lang's title
Baroness Lang of Calderthorpe
66
Final line of memoirs
Ruth and I look forward to the future, whatever it may hold
67
Where is the book launch
Banqueting House
68
How is Rycart killed
Car accident, NYC