So it is President Jack Mahone? Or is it Prime Minister Adam Lang? A website called The Rap Sheet, edited by J. Kingston Pierce, points out that the same stock image shot by photographer Mike Powell is used both on the cover of The Coup, and on the cover of Robert Harris‘s new political thriller, The Ghost. It’s kind of amazing that the enormously talented, creative, successful Harris and his team would feel the need to poach some of the luster from my modest offering, but can you deny the evidence of your own eyes? Shocking!

Meanwhile, Doubleday has come up with a brand new cover for the paperback edition of The Coup, which will be out in July. Let’s see what that big fat copycat Harris comes up with now!