The Ghost
Автор книги Robert Harris
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When I heard how Macara died, I should have said no to Rick. But Rick, who's my agent, is a good storyteller. I often think he should be the writer and me the agent. The story he told me over lunch that day went like this. Two Sundays earlier, 12th January, a man called Michael Macara had been on the last ferry of the day from Wood Hole, Massachusetts, to Martha's Vineyard.
There was a strong wind when the ferry left at 09:45 p.m. And the boat was crowded. Macara parked his car below decks and then went upstairs. No one saw him alive again. The journey to the island usually takes 45 minutes, but that night, because of the bad weather, it was nearly 11:00 before the ferry reached Vineyard Haven when the driver of a new Ford escaped SUV did not come to take it off the boat.
Some of the crew pushed the car onto the dock and then began a search for the driver. They did not find anyone. A police check showed that the brown Ford Escape belonged to Martin S Reinhardt of New York City, a well known publisher. However, when the police telephoned Mr Reinhardt, he was safe in California. He said that he kept the car at his holiday home on Martha's Vineyard for himself and his guests to use.
He told the police that several people were staying there at the moment. After telephoning the house, Reinhardt said that someone was missing, a man called Michael Macara. The next morning, a woman found Macara's body on a beach about 6 west at Lambert's Cove. The police took it to the little morgue in Vineyard Haven and then drove to Reinhardt's house to give the guests the news and to ask someone to come and identify the body. That swimwan arrived at the morgue in a police car, followed by a second car with four armed guards.
Until 18 months earlier, he had been the prime minister of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. He was Adam Lang.