The Twelve
  • Published: 1 September 2010
  • ISBN: 9780099535348
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 480
  • RRP: $29.99

The Twelve

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The Twelve is a magnificent debut thriller. One of the best first novels in years.

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
  • Published: 1 September 2010
  • ISBN: 9780099535348
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 480
  • RRP: $29.99
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About the author

Stuart Neville

Stuart Neville’s first novel, The Twelve, was one of the most critically acclaimed crime debuts of recent years, winning the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for best thriller. Collusion, Stolen Souls, Ratlines (shortlisted for the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger), The Final Silence and Those We Left Behind (a Richard and Judy Book Club choice) have garnered widespread praise, confirming his position as one of the most exciting crime authors writing today.

www.stuartneville.com

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Also by Stuart Neville

So Say the Fallen
Those We Left Behind
The Final Silence
Ratlines
Stolen Souls
Collusion
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Praise for The Twelve

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

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

Jeff Abbott

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

A blistering debut

Metro

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

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
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