Fegan has been a "hard man," 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, he's going to have to kill the men who gave him orders. As he's working his way down the list he encounters the wife of a policeman, a woman who may offer him redemption. Now he has given Fate - and his quarry - a hostage. Is this Fegan's ultimate mistake?
Stuart Neville is a partner in a multimedia design business based in Armagh, Northern Ireland. This novel is the first in a series. It will be published in England by Secker Harvill as The Twelve, as well as in France, Spain and Japan. Soho will publish his next novel, Collusion, in 2010.
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.