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The 25th Hour

On sale

16th May 2002

Price: £9.99

Selected:  Paperback / ISBN-13: 9780340822296

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From the writer of the award-winning Game of Thrones series for HBO based on the books of George R. R. Martin.

‘David Benioff is an exceptional storyteller’ Khaled Hosseini
‘[An] acerbically captivating first novel’ New York Times

Also adapted as a feature film by Spike Lee starring Edward Norton and Philip Seymour Hoffman

Monty Brogan starts a seven-year prison sentence for dealing drugs tomorrow. Tonight is his last night of freedom.

His father wants him to run. His drug-lord boss, Uncle Blue, wants to know if he squealed. His girlfriend isn’t sure what she wants, and his two best friends know one thing for sure; after he goes in, he will never be the same.

‘As unusual as it is well wrought: it resonates with a Whitmanesque sense of the city’s possibilities and unsatisfied longings’ New Yorker


Reviews

<i>New York Times</i>
Acerbically captivating first novel . . . Benioff creates a pungent, funny urban tableau full of shrewd operators and unfulfilled desires
<i>New Yorker</i>
As unusual as it is well wrought: it resonates with a Whitmanesque sense of the city's possibilities and unsatisfied longings
<i>Entertainment Weekly</i>
David Benioff's headlong suspense novel is a deceptively simple chronicle of [Monty's] final day of freedom . . . Working in a novelistic form of "real time", Benioff shows a knack for critiquing his genre while revitalising its cliches . . . Instead of yielding mere irony, the author, in his first novel, achieves both pathos and excitement
<i>Publishers Weekly</i>
Brilliantly conceived, this gripping crime drama boasts dead-on dialogue, chiaroscuro portraits of New York's social strata and an inescapable crescendo of tension. Monty's solution to his agonising dilemmas will shock even hardened suspense lovers
From the Publisher's Description
This character-driven crime novel is a spellbinding portrait of three friends confronting the consequences of their carefree youth on the streets of New York.