What Lies Around Us - Andrew Crofts
Imagine this, fellow
writers: You have been paid a million dollars by a Silicon
Valley billionaire to ghostwrite the autobiography of your favourite
film star – who may even be your secret crush.
As if that wasn’t good enough,
every publisher in London and New York is pursuing you, begging you to put
in a good word for them, offering eight figure advances.
Your employer, however, has far
more money and far more marketing muscle than any mere publisher, so you don’t
need any of them. You can do the whole publishing process yourself and then
hand the finished product over to his marketing machine.
Too good to be
true? Well, yes actually. This is just the starting point, and one of the many sub-plots, of my forthcoming novel, “What Lies Around Us”, due out from Red Door Publishing in
June.
Once the ghost gets
to California ,
of course, he discovers there is far more at stake than a mere publishing deal.
Everyone he meets seems to
have a hidden agenda and someone is willing to kill to ensure that their plans
work out. But what are those plans, who are the ultimate puppet-masters and how
far are they willing to go?
The plot takes the reader to a world
where ghostwriters work with presidents, (James Patterson and Bill Clinton
writing “The President is Missing”), and create presidents, (Tony
Schwartz who ghosted “The Art of the Deal”, setting
President Trump on the road to becoming the most famous and reviled name in the
world).
This is the world of
myth-makers, story-tellers and media manipulators – the people who really run
the world and the ones who shape the global conversations – and us, the humble
scribes who watch and tell.
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