The brilliant follow-up to the debut thriller of 2009, The Twelve. 'If you like Neville's debut thriller 'The Twelve' last year - as I most certainly did - his second is even better' Daily Mail

Praise for Stuart Neville:

"Neville's novel is a coldly lucid assessment of the fragility of the Irish peace ... a rare example of legitimate noir fiction."--"The New York Times Book Review"

"Stuart Neville belongs to a younger generation of writers for whom the region's darkest years are history--but that history endures, as his first novel, 'The Ghosts of Belfast, ' shockingly demonstrates.... This noir thriller plays out in a Belfast that, even in summer sunshine, remains oppressively gray. The clannishness of its inhabitants is vividly evoked.... A riot scene, one of the novel's best, captures a new generation's appetite for blood and an old veteran's nostalgia.... In scene after gruesome scene, Neville attempts to persuade us that this time around, with this repentant murderer, the killing is different."--"Washington Post"
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"Neville's tightly wound, emotionally resonant account of an ex-IRA hit man's struggle to conquer his past, displays an acute understanding of the true state of Northern Ireland, still under the thumb of decades of violence and terrorism."--"Los Angeles Times"
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"Stuart Neville is Ireland's answer to Henning Mankell."--Ken Bruen

""The Ghosts of Belfast" is a tale of revenge and reconciliation shrouded in a bloody original crime thriller.... Brilliant."--"Milwaukee Journal Sentinel"
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"Neville's debut novel is tragic, violent, exciting, plausible, and compelling.... "The Ghosts of Belfast" is dark, powerful, insightful, and hard to put down."--"Booklist

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Stuart Neville's first novel, The Twelve, is one of the most critically acclaimed crime debuts of recent years with rave reviews in the Observer and Daily Mail, as well as garnering praise from such authors as James Ellroy, John Connolly, Jeff Abbott and Ken Bruen. In America it was selected as one of the top crime novels of the year by both the New York Times and the LA Times. Stuart is a partner in a multimedia business in the wilds of Northern Ireland. www.stuartneville.com