July 2010 Debut of the Month.
The shout-line on the cover reads “Twelve Murders, Twelve Ghosts, Twelve Demands for Vengeance” and so our IRA hitman sets out to clear his conscience, by killing those who order him to kill. This is tremendous stuff, a really good novel on the Irish scene, a cut-above the norm.
Comparison: James Ellroy, Ian Rankin, Simon Kernick.
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Sooner or later, everybody pays - and the dead will set the price ...Former paramilitary killer Gerry Fegan is haunted by his victims, twelve souls who shadow his every waking day and scream through every drunken night. Just as he reaches the edge of sanity they reveal their desire: vengeance on those who engineered their deaths. From the greedy politicians to the corrupt security forces, the street thugs to the complacent bystanders who let it happen, all must pay the price. When Fegan's vendetta threatens to derail Northern Ireland's peace process and destabilise its fledgling government, old comrades, and enemies alike want him gone. David Campbell, a double agent lost between the forces of law and terror, takes the job. But he has his own reasons for eliminating Fegan; the secrets of a dirty war should stay buried, even if its ghosts do not. Set against the backdrop of a post-conflict Northern Ireland struggling with its past, The Twelve takes the reader from the back streets of the city, where violence and politics go hand-in-hand, to the country's darkest heart. Stuart Neville's gripping thriller marks the emergence of a brilliant new voice.
The Twelve features in the following genres: Crime and Mystery, Thriller and Suspense, Debut Books of the Month, eBooks of the Month, Fiction, Recommendations
The Twelve is available in Paperback
The Twelve was written by Stuart Neville and published by Vintage an imprint of CCV
The Twelve has 466 pages
£9.89
