The Ghosts of Belfast (The Belfast Novels)

The Ghosts of Belfast (The Belfast Novels)
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â€œThe best first novel Iâ€™ve read in years...Itâ€™s a flat-out terror trip.â€â€”James Ellroy

â€œNot 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.â€â€”John Connolly

â€œThe Ghosts of Belfast is the book when the world finally sits up and goes WOW, the Irish really have taken over the world of crime writing. Stuart Neville is Irelandâ€™s answer to Henning Mankell.â€â€”Ken Bruen

â€œSure to garner attention and stir lively pub discussions.â€â€”Library Journal

â€œNevilleâ€™s debut novel is tragic, violent, exciting, plausible, and compelling. . . . The Ghosts of Belfast is dark, powerful, insightful, and hard to put down.â€â€”Booklist

â€œNevilleâ€™s debut is as unrelenting as Feganâ€™s ghosts, pulling no punches as it describes the brutality of Irelandâ€™s 'troubles' and the crime that has followed, as violent men find new outlets for their skills. Sharp prose places readers in this pitiless place and holds them there. Harsh and unrelenting crime fiction, masterfully done.â€â€”Kirkus

â€œ[Stuart] Neville has the talent to believably blend the tropes of the crime novel and those of a horror, in the process creating a page-turning thriller akin to a collaboration between John Connolly and Stephen King. . . [The Ghosts of Belfast] is a superb thriller, and one of the first great post-Troubles novels to emerge from Northern Ireland.â€â€”Sunday Independent (Ireland)

Fegan has been a â€œhard man,â€ an IRA killer in northern Ireland. Now that peace has come, he is being haunted day and night by twelve ghosts: a mother and infant, a schoolboy, a butcher, an RUC constable, and seven other of his innocent victims. In order to appease them, heâ€™s going to have to kill the men who gave him orders.

As heâ€™s working his way down the list he encounters a woman who may offer him redemption; she has borne a child to an RUC officer and is an outsider too. Now he has given Fateâ€”and his quarryâ€”a hostage. Is this Feganâ€™s ultimate mistake?

Stuart Neville is a partner in a multimedia design business based in Armagh, northern Ireland. This novel, also known as The Twelve in the UK and Ireland, is the first in a series.
Country USA
Brand Soho Crime
Manufacturer Soho Crime
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2009-10-01
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781569476000

Country	USA
Brand	Soho Crime
Manufacturer	Soho Crime
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2009-10-01
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781569476000

The Ghosts of Belfast (The Belfast Novels)

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