Product Description
August 1997. As the century grinds to a close Diana Spencer and her Egyptian lover are to visit Paris. According to some accounts they will become engaged. According to some accounts there are those who will go to any lengths to put an end to her increasingly unpredictable trajectory. There are stirrings in the covert world, and as the Harrods Gulfstream bearing the lovers nears Paris other elements start to fall into place. An international fixer with an interest to protect puts a team in place to watch the Princess. A former Special Branch man is recruited by his former handler as part of the team. They are joined by his former lover. The Ritz's Deputy Director of security and a paparazzo supreme are their surveillance targets. But they are not the only ones watching Spencer, and it soon becomes apparent that perhaps their street-level chicanery isn't equal to the events unfolding around them.
Set in the shadows and margins of our own recent history 12:23 sees Eoin McNamee weave a fictional narrative of dark imaginative power around the strange events of that Parisian summer.
About the Author
Eoin McNamee was born in Kilkeel, County Down, in 1961. He was educated in various schools in the North of Ireland and at Trinity College, Dublin. He has lived in Dublin, London and New York. His first book, the novella The Last of Deeds, was shortlisted for the Irish Times Literature Prize. His next book, Resurrection Man, was published in 1996 to great critical acclaim and is reissued in 2004. Other publications include The Language of Birds (poetry) and two screenplays - Resurrection Man (1998) and I Want You (1998). His novel, The Blue Tango, was his first book for Faber, and his second novel, The Ultras, is published in 2004. Eoin McNamee also writes under the name 'John Creed'. He lives in Sligo on the west coast of Ireland.