The Ghosts of Belfast

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 Belfast, where violence and politics go hand-in-hand, to the country's darkest heart.

"A brilliant thriller: unbearably tense, stomach-churningly frightening ... a future classic of its time." - The Observer

"An astonishing first novel ... awesomely powerful, fabulously written ... simply unmissable." - Daily Mail

"The best first novel I've read in years. It's a flat out terror trip."

- James Ellroy (L.A. Confidential, The Black Dahlia, American Tabloid)

"Not only one of the finest thriller debuts of the last ten years, but also one of the best Irish novels, in any genre, of recent times."

- John Connolly (The Reapers, The Unquiet, The Book of Lost Things)