Ghost - full deck Flashcards
Book quoted from at the start of each chapter
Ghostwriting - Andrew Crofts
“I am not I; thou are not he or she; they are not they”
Evelyn Waugh - Brideshead Revisited
Previous ghostwriter, now dead
Mike James McAra
Where does the Martha’s Vineyard ferry travel between
Woods Hole and Vineyard Haven
How long does the crossing usually take
45 minutes
Car McAra was driving
tan coloured Ford Escape
Ferry run by …
Massachusetts Steamship Authority
Ford Escape belongs to
Martin S Rhinehart
Stretch of water the ferry plies
Vineyard Sound and Nantucket Sound
Where was McAra’s body found?
Lambert’s Cove
Where was McAra from?
Balham
Who identifies McAra’s body
Adam Lang, former PM
Agent’s name
Rick Riccardelli
Tournament at Rick’s club
Backgammon
Book just finished
Autobiography of a footballer
Name of former PM
Adam Peter Bennet Lang
How much has Lang been paid for his memoirs
$10m - two years, War on Terror
Head of Rhinehart’s publishing company
John Maddox
Lang’s lawyer
Sidney Kroll
Rick’s commission
15%
Lang’s role in school Shakespeare
Lady Macbeth
Where is the bomb at the start of The Ghost
Oxford Circus
Where does The Ghost live?
Notting Hill/North Kensington
Ghost’s “girlfriend”
Kate
Lang’s hotel in NYC
Waldorf Astoria
How much is Lang paid for lecturing
$100k
Death toll from Oxford Circus bomb
Eight
Where is Rhinehart Publishing UK based?
Hounslow
Terrorism alert
Orange/High
Ghost’s editor
Roy Quigley
“What sells a book is …”
heart
How long does The Ghost have to edit McAra’s manuscript?
One month - publish in June (it’s now middle of January)
What is the Ghost mugged for?
Senator’s manuscript - One Out Of Many
Kroll’s firm
Brinkerhof Lombardi Kroll, Attorneys, M Street, Washington DC
Fee for The Ghost
$250,000 + $50,000 bonus
Flight to Boston
American Airlines 109
Lang’s performance as a chicken …
Cambridge Footlights, 1972
Airport at Boston
Logan
Lang’s PA
Amelia Bly
Lighthouse in Vineyard Sound
West Chop
Martha’s Vineyard population
100,000 summer, 15,000 winter
Main town on Martha’s Vineyard
Edgartown
Church in Edgartown
Old Whaling
Hotel in Edgartown
Lighthouse View
Operation Tempest
Four Brits, seized in Peshawar. One (Ashraf) died under interrogation
Where did Edward Kennedy’s career go wrong?
Chappaquiddick
Rhinehart’s house is near …
West Tisbury
Holiday home designed by …
Albert Speer (joke)
First Mrs Rhinehart
On the board of MOMA
Second Mrs Rhinehart
Bollywood actress
Lang’s wife
Ruth
Lang’s staff
Alice and Lucy, secretaries. Jeff, driver
Amelia on secondment …
Cabinet Office
Vietnemese housekeepers
Dep and Duc - Duc is the man
Test for a novel or film …
Seaplane test
Ex-foreign secretary
Richard Rycart
Rock star Lang’s stayed with on Mustique
Christy Costello
What does Ruth liken to being stuck on MV
Napoleon on St Helena
Amoured car
Jaguar
Jet owned by …
Hallington
Type of jet
Gulfstream Four
Where are the Lang papers kept?
Cambridge
McAra likened to …
Party hack turned Stakhanovite of the archive
Song of Costello’s Lang sings
Once In A Lifetime, 1977
Ghost’s equipment
Sony Minidisc WalkmanPanasonic ToughbookMoleskine notebooksJetstream rollerball pens - Mitsubishi
Where was Lang living in London when he met Ruth?
Lambeth
Where was Lang brought up?
Leicester
Lang’s parents
Father a builder, mother a teacher
Lang’s father’s car
Austin Atlantic
Lang’s first memory
Running away from home, aged five
Lang’s mother’s book
A Thing Of Beauty
Title role at 17
Marlowe’s Dr Faustus
Review of Dr Faustus
Leicester Mercury, December 1971
How old was Lang when his father died
16
How dd Lang’s parents die?
Father - heart attack (paving slab) Mother - cancer
What did Lang study at Cambridge
Economics
What sport did Lang play at Cambridge
Football
Editorial in Times when Lang steps down
Kindly Leave The Stage
Which court is investigating Lang for Operation Tempest
ICC, The Hague
Rycart’s current post
UN Special Envoy on Human Rights
Special Branch officer protecting Ruth
Barry
Word Lang adds to press release
Domestic
Front page story on Lang
New York Times
Where does Rick go on a fishing trip?
Bouma National Heritage Rainforest Park, Fiji
Kroll’s paralegals
Encarncion and Josh
Articles Lang might be charged under
7 - crimes against humanity8 - war crimes
Other articles
25 - facilitating58 - warrants59 - arrest86 - co-operate fully
Countries Lang could go to
USA, China, North Korea, Indonesia, Israel
Chief Prosecutor at ICC
Spanish
How many bedrooms in the MV house
Six
Director of the Adam Lang Archive Centre in Cambridge
Dr Julia Crawford-Jones
Dates for Lambeth
Local elections - 1977Lang’s party membership card - 1975Ruth’s arrival - 1976
Postgrad student in photograph
Paul Emmett - St Johns
Whose phone number on the photo
Rycart’s
Where does the Ghost hide the photos?
Under the mattress
Man near Lambert’s Cove worked at …
World Bank
Widow who saw lights in Lambert’s Cove
Annabeth Wurmbrand
“Kay’s big old place”
Bill and Hillary, Lady Di
Martha’s Vineyard reminds Ruth of …
Cornwall
Barry’s reading
Harry Potter
Ruth’s education
First at OxfordFulbright scholar
Where was Adam and Ruth’s wedding?
Marylebone Registry OfficeAndy Martin - Best man
Honeymood
Ruth’s parents’ cottage, Hay on Wye
Election around the time Adam and Ruth were married
Thatcher - 1979
Ruth’s reading
New York Review of Books
Rhinehart’s Vinery
Napa Valley
First rule of politics
Never lose touch with your base
Demonstrator’s vehicle
VW campervan
Where does the Ford Escape take The Ghost to?
Paul Emmett’s house in Belmont
Fare for the ferry
$50
Another lighthouse
Nobska Point
Route to Emmett
I-96, Concord Turnpike
Paul Emmett’s house number
3551
Security firm at Emmett’s
Cyclops
Paul Emmett’s wife
Nancy Cline - defence analyst, Houston, Texas
Paul Emmett’s President Emeritus of …
Arcadia Institution
Paul Emmett’s tie
Bright red, with pheasants
Dramat
The Yale Dramatic Association - Paul Emmett
Paul Emmett’s photos
The Wall of Ego
Arcadia reception attended by Lang
Claridges
Where was Emmett on the 11th and 12th of January?
Colorado - Aspen Institute
Photo of Roosevelt and Churchill
Placentia Bay, Newfoundland
Professor Emmett’s posts
Harvard (Ruth), Howard T Polk III Professor of Foreign relations
Emmett’s hobbies
Squash, Golf, Gilbert and Sullivan
Hallington’s CEO
Arthur Prussia
Airbase in Poland
Stare Kiejkuty
Torture method used on suspects
Waterboarding
What agency is Emmett supposed to be a member of
CIA
CIA whistleblower
Frank Molinari
Paper being read by man on plane to NYC
FT
Where does the plane land in NYC
La Guardia
What is on the board of the man waiting at La Guardia
Mike McAra
Where is the hotel The Ghost is taken to
Grand Central Parkway
Pseudonym used by Ghost at hotel
Clive Dixon
Room rate in NYC
$275
Fake address
Kate’s house numberRick’s club street
Rycart’s ex-NYPD sidekick
Frank
How long did Rycart with with Lang?
15 years
Rycart’s weakness
Vanity
Who gave Rycart the incriminating memo about Operation Tempest
Mike McAra
McAra’s nickname
McHorror
Where did McAra say the key to Lang could be found
All there in the beginning
The Member for Michigan
Reginald Giffen - gave up his seat for Lang
“he didn’t have an ideology …”
“… he had an agenda”
Where does Amelia ask the Ghost to meet them
Waldorf Astoria
What excuse does The Ghost give for being in NYC?
Seeing John Maddox
Who is having a conference at the hotel?
“Church of Latter Day Online Traders”
What is Lang drinking on the plane?
Brandy
How much is a Gulfstream four?
$40m
How many planes does Hallington have?
Five
Who carried out Operation Tempest?
SAS
FBI agent who questions The Ghost
Special Agent Murphy
Lang’s assassin
George Arthur Boxer
Boxer’s son killed in
Iraq
Boxer’s wife killed in
London suicide bombing
Boxer’s cottage
Oak’s Bluff
“Who scorns his own life is lord of yours”
Seneca
Lang’s funeral
Westminster Abbey
Ruth Lang’s title
Baroness Lang of Calderthorpe
Final line of memoirs
Ruth and I look forward to the future, whatever it may hold
McAra’s grave
Streatham cemetary
Flowers on McAra’s grave
Amelia
Who invites the Ghost to the book launch?
Amelia Bly
Where does the Ghost meet Amelia
End of Downing St
Where is the book launch
Banqueting House
McAra’s message
Lang’s wife Ruth studying in Seventy-Six was recruited as a CIA agent in America by Professor Paul Emmett of Harvard University
How is Rycart killed
Car accident, NYC
