The Twelve - Couverture souple

Neville, Stuart

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0099535343 ISBN 13 : 9780099535348

Editeur : Vintage, 2010

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture :

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 Ghosts of Belfast 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.

'Twelve is not only one of the finest thriller debuts of the last ten years, but is also one of the best Irish novels, in any genre, of recent times. It grips from the first page to the last, and heralds the arrival of a major new voice in Irish writing. I don't know how Stuart Neville is going to improve upon such an exceptional first novel, but I can't wait to find out...'
John Connolly

'Twelve is the best first novel I have 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

Quatrième de couverture :

'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

Sooner or later, everybody pays.

Gerry Fegan, a former 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: 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.

Everybody pays - the question is how, and when...

'An astonishing debut. Brilliantly conceived, masterfully written; both a heart-pounding thriller and a stunning examination of responsibility and revenge' Jeff Abbott

'The best first novel I've read in years. It grabs you by the throat' James Ellroy

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Vintage
• Date d'édition: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0099535343
• ISBN 13: 9780099535348
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 480