Metro calls THE TWELVE a Blistering Debut
Metro, the free newspaper with a daily circulation of around 1.5 million readers, said in its five-star review of THE TWELVE: "Stuart Neville's blistering debut thriller is a walk on the wild side of post-conflict Northern Ireland that brilliantly exposes the suffering still lurking beneath the surface of reconciliation and the hypocrisies that sustain the peace."
Critic Siobhan Murphy went on to say: "Neville ceaselessly cranks up the tension ... but it's his caustic assessments of present-day Northern Ireland, penetrating its sad, confused predicaments, that really hit home."