The Twelve
Stuart Neville
Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Best Thriller
Sooner or later, everybody pays.
Gerry Fegan, a former paramilitary contract killer, is haunted by the ghosts of the 12 people he has slaughtered. Every night, on the point of losing his mind, he drowns their screams in drink. His solution is to kill 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 are called to account. But when Fegan's vendetta threatens to derail a hard-won truce and destabilise the government, old comrades and enemies alike want him dead.
'The Twelve is the best first novel I've read in years. It crackles. It grabs you by the throat. This is some guy to watch out for in a dark alley' - James Ellroy
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James Ellroy Stunning... Awesomely powerful, fabulously written and with a hero who is also a villain that you cannot help sympathising with, this novel is simply unmissable
Daily Mail
A brilliant thriller: unbearably tense, stomach-churningly frightening
Observer
As astonishing debut. Brilliantly conceived, masterfully written; both a heart-pounding thriller and a stunning examination of responsibility and revenge
Jeff Abbott A blistering debut
Metro
A page-turning thriller akin to a collaboration between John Connolly and Stephen King... The Twelve is a superb thriller, and one of the first great post-Troubles novels to emerge from Northern Ireland
Sunday Independent
The Twelve is a fast-paced, gripping, darkly enjoyable thriller
Times Literary Supplement
It'll knock you sideways. This guy can write
Guardian
A gripping, original thriller
Sunday Times