Once, when I picked up a book from the local library, the librarian asked to tell her what I thought about the book when I would bring it back. Well, why not write a few lines about all the books I read so everybody could see what I thought about it? I'm often also happy to have friends recommend a certain book or tell me this and that is not really worth reading. I won't comment about the tons of books I have read so far, but about books I read from now on.
| highly recommended | sehr empfohlen | |
| good reading | gutes lesematerial | |
| average | durchschnittlich | |
| not too interesting | nicht allzu interessant | |
| recommended not to read it | empfehlung das buch nicht zu lesen |
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| title | The Twelve |
| author | Stuart Neville |
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| ISBN-13 | 978-0-099-53534-8 |
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| date | 2019-Dec-06 |
Gerry Fegan did his time. Twelve years. Twelve years in prison for killing twelve people in his time as a killer for the IRA. But his past has taken a toll on Gerry and Gerry has taken to the bottle. His way of droning out the shadows of his past, the shadows his victims haunting him. But what if there was a way to get rid of these shadows, rather than unsuccessfully trying to ignore them or drown them in alcohol? Give them what they demand, satisfy their lust for revenge, free them of their haunting and be freed of their haunting?
This well written story shows a lot of the remorse Gerry Fegan feels and his non-cold-blooded side. It pictures him more as a victim of his time than a murderer and terrorist. But at the same time it is also a story which is built very much around killing. And revenge. Killing in the past, which finally leads to killing in the present.
Does it have a happy end? It does have an end, a rather predictable one. Happy or unhappy? I don't know, depends on what you consider to be a happy end.
