Ghost - full deck Flashcards
(167 cards)
1
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Book quoted from at the start of each chapter
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Ghostwriting - Andrew Crofts
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
3
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Previous ghostwriter, now dead
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Mike James McAra
4
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Where does the Martha’s Vineyard ferry travel between
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Woods Hole and Vineyard Haven
5
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How long does the crossing usually take
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45 minutes
6
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Car McAra was driving
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tan coloured Ford Escape
7
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Ferry run by …
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Massachusetts Steamship Authority
8
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Ford Escape belongs to
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Martin S Rhinehart
9
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Stretch of water the ferry plies
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Vineyard Sound and Nantucket Sound
10
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Where was McAra’s body found?
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Lambert’s Cove
11
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Where was McAra from?
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Balham
12
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Who identifies McAra’s body
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Adam Lang, former PM
13
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Agent’s name
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Rick Riccardelli
14
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Tournament at Rick’s club
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Backgammon
15
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Book just finished
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Autobiography of a footballer
16
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Name of former PM
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Adam Peter Bennet Lang
17
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How much has Lang been paid for his memoirs
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$10m - two years, War on Terror
18
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Head of Rhinehart’s publishing company
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John Maddox
19
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Lang’s lawyer
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Sidney Kroll
20
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Rick’s commission
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15%
21
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Lang’s role in school Shakespeare
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Lady Macbeth
22
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Where is the bomb at the start of The Ghost
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Oxford Circus
23
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Where does The Ghost live?
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Notting Hill/North Kensington
24
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Ghost’s “girlfriend”
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Kate
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Lang's hotel in NYC
Waldorf Astoria
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How much is Lang paid for lecturing
$100k
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Death toll from Oxford Circus bomb
Eight
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Where is Rhinehart Publishing UK based?
Hounslow
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Terrorism alert
Orange/High
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Ghost's editor
Roy Quigley
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"What sells a book is ..."
heart
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How long does The Ghost have to edit McAra's manuscript?
One month - publish in June (it's now middle of January)
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What is the Ghost mugged for?
Senator's manuscript - One Out Of Many
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Kroll's firm
Brinkerhof Lombardi Kroll, Attorneys, M Street, Washington DC
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Fee for The Ghost
$250,000 + $50,000 bonus
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Flight to Boston
American Airlines 109
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Lang's performance as a chicken ...
Cambridge Footlights, 1972
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Airport at Boston
Logan
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Lang's PA
Amelia Bly
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Lighthouse in Vineyard Sound
West Chop
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Martha's Vineyard population
100,000 summer, 15,000 winter
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Main town on Martha's Vineyard
Edgartown
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Church in Edgartown
Old Whaling
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Hotel in Edgartown
Lighthouse View
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Operation Tempest
Four Brits, seized in Peshawar. One (Ashraf) died under interrogation
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Where did Edward Kennedy's career go wrong?
Chappaquiddick
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Rhinehart's house is near ...
West Tisbury
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Holiday home designed by ...
Albert Speer (joke)
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First Mrs Rhinehart
On the board of MOMA
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Second Mrs Rhinehart
Bollywood actress
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Lang's wife
Ruth
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Lang's staff
Alice and Lucy, secretaries. Jeff, driver
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Amelia on secondment ...
Cabinet Office
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Vietnemese housekeepers
Dep and Duc - Duc is the man
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Test for a novel or film ...
Seaplane test
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Ex-foreign secretary
Richard Rycart
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Rock star Lang's stayed with on Mustique
Christy Costello
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What does Ruth liken to being stuck on MV
Napoleon on St Helena
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Amoured car
Jaguar
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Jet owned by ...
Hallington
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Type of jet
Gulfstream Four
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Where are the Lang papers kept?
Cambridge
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McAra likened to ...
Party hack turned Stakhanovite of the archive
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Song of Costello's Lang sings
Once In A Lifetime, 1977
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Ghost's equipment
Sony Minidisc WalkmanPanasonic ToughbookMoleskine notebooksJetstream rollerball pens - Mitsubishi
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Where was Lang living in London when he met Ruth?
Lambeth
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Where was Lang brought up?
Leicester
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Lang's parents
Father a builder, mother a teacher
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Lang's father's car
Austin Atlantic
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Lang's first memory
Running away from home, aged five
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Lang's mother's book
A Thing Of Beauty
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Title role at 17
Marlowe's Dr Faustus
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Review of Dr Faustus
Leicester Mercury, December 1971
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How old was Lang when his father died
16
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How dd Lang's parents die?
Father - heart attack (paving slab) Mother - cancer
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What did Lang study at Cambridge
Economics
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What sport did Lang play at Cambridge
Football
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Editorial in Times when Lang steps down
Kindly Leave The Stage
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Which court is investigating Lang for Operation Tempest
ICC, The Hague
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Rycart's current post
UN Special Envoy on Human Rights
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Special Branch officer protecting Ruth
Barry
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Word Lang adds to press release
Domestic
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Front page story on Lang
New York Times
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Where does Rick go on a fishing trip?
Bouma National Heritage Rainforest Park, Fiji
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Kroll's paralegals
Encarncion and Josh
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Articles Lang might be charged under
7 - crimes against humanity8 - war crimes
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Other articles
25 - facilitating58 - warrants59 - arrest86 - co-operate fully
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Countries Lang could go to
USA, China, North Korea, Indonesia, Israel
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Chief Prosecutor at ICC
Spanish
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How many bedrooms in the MV house
Six
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Director of the Adam Lang Archive Centre in Cambridge
Dr Julia Crawford-Jones
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Dates for Lambeth
Local elections - 1977Lang's party membership card - 1975Ruth's arrival - 1976
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Postgrad student in photograph
Paul Emmett - St Johns
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Whose phone number on the photo
Rycart's
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Where does the Ghost hide the photos?
Under the mattress
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Man near Lambert's Cove worked at ...
World Bank
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Widow who saw lights in Lambert's Cove
Annabeth Wurmbrand
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"Kay's big old place"
Bill and Hillary, Lady Di
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Martha's Vineyard reminds Ruth of ...
Cornwall
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Barry's reading
Harry Potter
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Ruth's education
First at OxfordFulbright scholar
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Where was Adam and Ruth's wedding?
Marylebone Registry OfficeAndy Martin - Best man
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Honeymood
Ruth's parents' cottage, Hay on Wye
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Election around the time Adam and Ruth were married
Thatcher - 1979
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Ruth's reading
New York Review of Books
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Rhinehart's Vinery
Napa Valley
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First rule of politics
Never lose touch with your base
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Demonstrator's vehicle
VW campervan
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Where does the Ford Escape take The Ghost to?
Paul Emmett's house in Belmont
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Fare for the ferry
$50
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Another lighthouse
Nobska Point
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Route to Emmett
I-96, Concord Turnpike
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Paul Emmett's house number
3551
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Security firm at Emmett's
Cyclops
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Paul Emmett's wife
Nancy Cline - defence analyst, Houston, Texas
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Paul Emmett's President Emeritus of ...
Arcadia Institution
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Paul Emmett's tie
Bright red, with pheasants
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Dramat
The Yale Dramatic Association - Paul Emmett
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Paul Emmett's photos
The Wall of Ego
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Arcadia reception attended by Lang
Claridges
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Where was Emmett on the 11th and 12th of January?
Colorado - Aspen Institute
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Photo of Roosevelt and Churchill
Placentia Bay, Newfoundland
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Professor Emmett's posts
Harvard (Ruth), Howard T Polk III Professor of Foreign relations
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Emmett's hobbies
Squash, Golf, Gilbert and Sullivan
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Hallington's CEO
Arthur Prussia
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Airbase in Poland
Stare Kiejkuty
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Torture method used on suspects
Waterboarding
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What agency is Emmett supposed to be a member of
CIA
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CIA whistleblower
Frank Molinari
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Paper being read by man on plane to NYC
FT
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Where does the plane land in NYC
La Guardia
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What is on the board of the man waiting at La Guardia
Mike McAra
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Where is the hotel The Ghost is taken to
Grand Central Parkway
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Pseudonym used by Ghost at hotel
Clive Dixon
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Room rate in NYC
$275
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Fake address
Kate's house numberRick's club street
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Rycart's ex-NYPD sidekick
Frank
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How long did Rycart with with Lang?
15 years
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Rycart's weakness
Vanity
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Who gave Rycart the incriminating memo about Operation Tempest
Mike McAra
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McAra's nickname
McHorror
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Where did McAra say the key to Lang could be found
All there in the beginning
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The Member for Michigan
Reginald Giffen - gave up his seat for Lang
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"he didn't have an ideology ..."
"... he had an agenda"
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Where does Amelia ask the Ghost to meet them
Waldorf Astoria
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What excuse does The Ghost give for being in NYC?
Seeing John Maddox
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Who is having a conference at the hotel?
"Church of Latter Day Online Traders"
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What is Lang drinking on the plane?
Brandy
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How much is a Gulfstream four?
$40m
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How many planes does Hallington have?
Five
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Who carried out Operation Tempest?
SAS
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FBI agent who questions The Ghost
Special Agent Murphy
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Lang's assassin
George Arthur Boxer
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Boxer's son killed in
Iraq
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Boxer's wife killed in
London suicide bombing
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Boxer's cottage
Oak's Bluff
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"Who scorns his own life is lord of yours"
Seneca
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Lang's funeral
Westminster Abbey
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Ruth Lang's title
Baroness Lang of Calderthorpe
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Final line of memoirs
Ruth and I look forward to the future, whatever it may hold
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McAra's grave
Streatham cemetary
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Flowers on McAra's grave
Amelia
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Who invites the Ghost to the book launch?
Amelia Bly
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Where does the Ghost meet Amelia
End of Downing St
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Where is the book launch
Banqueting House
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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
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How is Rycart killed
Car accident, NYC
