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Ghostwriting (or simply "ghosting")

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostwriter

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       https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scarlatti_Inheritance

The Scarlatti Inheritance is the first of 27 thriller novels written (the last four of them left in the form of manuscripts, later finalized by ghost writers) by American author Robert Ludlum. 

on Robert Ludlum

theatre, theater 

sense of pacing, characterization, humor, suspense

I think it's all suspense and what happens next

a "what-if" question

the following is not related to the initial topic (ghostwriting)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Ludlum_bibliography

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Matarese_Circle

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Parsifal_Mosaic

https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/a/robert-ludlum-10/the-aquitaine-progression/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_March

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Road_to_Gandolfo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holcroft_Covenant


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trevayne

Trevayne is Robert Ludlum's fourth novel, published in 1973 under the pseudonym Jonathan Ryder.[1]

The novel centers around an independent and headstrong tycoon who reluctantly accepts an appointment from the President of the United States to head a subcommission to investigate malfeasance and rampant corruption committed by contractors and subcontractors with the Pentagon. The investigation quickly unearths dangerous truths. 

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/865674.Trevayne

October 19, 2010
Half way through Trevayne I thought I had incontrovertible proof that Robert Ludlum was the greatest writer in english ever. Why did I believe that? Trevayne concerns itself with a Senate subcommittee set up to investigate defense spending misappropriations. Yes you read that correctly. Ludlum sat down and thought, "I know how to keep the readers interest. I'll write a book about a government committee looking into corporation ledgers." I thought it was a Ludlum book so there would be action and world travel. Nope. Over the first half of the book is about the work of a Senate subcommittee investigating malfeasance. They look at ledgers and interview executives. But I kept reading. Somehow Ludlum made it interesting enough for me to keep turning pages.
Then sadly comes the second half of the book. Entire plot points are forgotten. Characters act in seemingly unexplainable ways so the plot moves along. Finally the book ends with no resolution whatsoever. It's like he got bored half way through. 

October 7, 2011
Robert Ludlum wrote this book in 1973 just as the Water Gate scandal was unfolding.
The book envisages a situation where a few senior men try to substitute American democracy with an Aristocracy where few high intellectuals will rule the country. They put in motion a scheme by which they can appropriate large sums of money out of the state exchequer through defense contracts and accumulate enough funds so that eventually it will be their intellects backed by large sums of money that will rule the US and the world in the future.
Trevayne is a middle aged rich American of impeccable credentials who is chosen to head a Senate sub-committe to inquire into the Pentagons giving away of contracts. He chances upon this plot for Aristocracy and tries to stop it.by exposure. But the men he is up against are too clever for him. This leaves him the only option - that of contesting an election and becoming the President of the US. Eventually he manages it and goes about working the vast sums of money controlled by the defence contracts companies to the advantage of the State.
The book is very readable and I will recommend it to all.

September 16, 2014
I have had a hard time to finish the book as it was taking on and on and on of the same ideas. The book is definitively not a thriller nor suspense. It is more just a political agitation, with more or less agreeable idealistic principles. This will not stop me to read other Ludlum books, but one learning for myself on future book from Ludlum, when you feel it is boring just drop it.....


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Really Wonderful for the Most Part
Reviewed in the United States on May 30, 2014
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(Spoilers) The plot is exquisitely laid out, the characters are painted vividly- you can really see them-, as well as feel the tensions between governmental entities. From a character development sense, Trevayne and other characters come to see, for instance, Army personnel, in a more compassionate way (and vice versa with some of the Army personnel).

The reason I give this book 4 Stars is the ending. After Trevayne reaches the Presidency, he is able to address to some extent some of the issues he's been fighting for throughout the novel, but, from what I can tell, hasn't been able to reign in Gennessee Industries, his main goal in the book. Thus, the ending, although maybe "realistic," was very anti-climactic for me. The ending was so underspoken and briefly expedited with, that I kept reading a few pages after the ending before realizing I was reading the "extra" of the first chapter of the Bourne Identity that the publishers had inserted at the end! (Made me laugh!) There were also a few minor plot strands that weren't tied up, something I've found in other Ludlum books; for instance, you end up connecting with Bonner, but there's no final conversation or connection between Bonner and Trevayne at the end, given their significant connection throughout the book.
These last criticisms I've found in many of Ludlum's books: a drive to finish the ending of a book as soon as possible, and sometimes not tying up loose ends. Perhaps he felt the reader would be impatient by that point and would just want it over as soon as possible, or maybe he himself just wanted it done with, or maybe his publisher said, "Bob, deadline . . . we got a deadline here!"


Copyright 1973 with publication in 1988, this story describes today's Federal government, shadow dealings, and military/corporate networks.