Nick McDonell

Nick McDonell's electrifying novel tells the story of a fictional drug called Twelve and its devastating effects on the beautiful rich and desperate poor of New York City. A bleak Manhattan midwinter and a group of wealthy teenagers, left to their own devices by disregarding parents, delve into the excesses of drugs, sex and the most chilling acts of violence imaginable. Hunter-- falsely accused of murder after a fight on the basketball courts; White Mike - a straight-A student who makes a fortune selling illegal substances; Laura - gorgeous but obsessed with a fabulous new designer drug called 'twelve and Claude - whose trips into the shadier corners of Chinatown have fuelled a macabre fascination with deadly weapons... From page one, this novel pulsates towards its apocalyptic climax. Cool and cruel and utterly compulsive, Twelve is the debut novel of 2002.

Mike drops out of prep school to sell drugs, and his uppercrust ex-classmates are among his best customers. The preppies, who live on the Upper East Side, mix uneasily with the kids from nearby Harlem, and when there is a double murder and one of the crowd is arrested, Mike knows who did it. But will he tell the truth? TWELVE was written when the author himself was a prep school student in Manhattan. A New York Times Notable Book for 2002.

Professor Susan Lowell has it made. A happily married mother of two in a tenure-track job at Harvard, she has just won a Pulitzer Prize for her book lionizing Hatashil, an East African freedom fighter. David Ayan is her singular Somali-born student. He is trying to become a member of one of Harvard's elite finals clubs. He is trying to understand Jane, his girlfriend from a privileged background. He is trying, sometimes, just to get by in a foreign place. Michael Teak is a twenty-five-year-old recent Harvard grad working as an American intelligence operative who meets Hatashil in David's village minutes before the massacre that will upend all their lives. Nick McDonell's third novel takes his readers into Harvard - through its dormitories and dining halls, into its elite finals clubs and lecture halls, and within the offices of its ambitious professors - giving us an incredibly authentic insider's view of this illustrious university. A powerful portrait of personalities all ensnared in the African conflict and of the Harvard campus on which the debate takes place, An Expensive Education is a smart, relentless novel set at the troubled intersection of ivory academia and realpolitik.

Mike is spending the summer working for a magazine in Hong Kong when Christopher Dorr, a brilliant journalist, goes missing in Thailand. Mikes editor decides to send him to Bangkok to report on the drug-tourism crackdown, but Mikes real mission is to find Dorr, who is also an old friend of his parents. This is the beginning of a vertiginous journey that propels Mike into fast and seedy nights in Thailand and back to New York, to a home wrecked by violence.The Third Brother moves with the speed of a bullet to portray a young man - and a family - shattered by lies and by excess.

An army roadblock. An American intelligence agent. A jetlagged afternoon on the Somalian plain. Michael Teak is not afraid of mercenaries. Life here comes at a price and as a CIA operative, Teak is holding the money. On the back seat of his car is a suitcase stuffed with narcotics; in the front, a gun and an envelope of US dollars. And then a bomb explodes.Thirty innocent victims. An entire village of women and children - all dead. And just like that, Michael Teak does not know anything for sure. Was he the target, or the scapegoat for mass murder with an international fallout? Abandoned, perhaps betrayed, by his employer, Teak is in the wind with nowhere to turn. Even his old sources are caught up in the media bloodbath back at his alma mater. These events have to be connected. Someone, somewhere, has all the cards and for a man running right down to the wire, the rules of the game are becoming dangerously blurred.

Waterstones Books of the YearNick McDonells electrifying novel tells the story of a fictional drug called Twelve and its devastating effects on the beautiful rich and desperate poor of New York City.From page one, this novel pulsates towards its apocalyptic climax. Twelve is cool, cruel and utterly compulsive. Twelve has been adapted for film by Hollywood director Joel Schumacher starring Chace Crawford,Emma Roberts, and 50 Cent.Praise for TwelveAs fast as speed, as relentless as acid -- Michiko Kakutani, New York TimesThe hype is all true --Sunday TelegraphBret Easton Ellis territory...an extraordinary assured debut --Harper & QueenMcDonell is an authentic talent and, long after the storms of hype have died away, his novel will endure as a snapshot of his generation --ObserverConsistently brilliant... One of the most exciting new writers around --Independent on SundayA brilliant satirical debut --Time OutA compulsive elegy to wasted, privileged youth, lives up to the hype... lean, elegant and bleakly witty --Elle

«Un puñetazo minimalista que radiografía sin moralina el no future de la generación post-11S de 2001. El hijo bastardo de Brett Easton Ellis y Douglas Coupland en noventa y siete polaroids y un epílo

Despues de su extraordinaria novela debut Twelve, Nick McDonell nos entrega una compleja intriga. A Mike, neoyorquino y rico, nunca le ha faltado nada, y siempre ha tenido cerca a su protector hermano mayor, Lyle. En 2001, viaja a Hong Kong para trabajar en una revista. El redactor jefe lo envia a Tailandia para que lleve a cabo una investigacion sobre el trafico de extasis. Su verdadera mision es localizar a Christopher Dorr, un periodista desaparecido. Comienza asi su extraña odisea en el mundo del narcoturismo y la prostitucion, en busca del periodista, antiguo compañero de su padre, y del que Mike nunca habia oido hablar... Desde casa, llegan malas noticias, y Mike se apresura a regresar. Lyle se halla sumido en un delirio en el que aparece un imaginario tercer hermano y, mientras las Torres Gemelas arden, Mike camina por las calles, intentando salvar a su hermano de una locura en la que subyace un tragico secreto familiar. "Una de las mejores y mas vividas evocaciones del 11 de septiembre" (Jay McInerney)"Su prosa es tan adictiva como la anfetamina –o, por lo menos, como el tiramisu" (Molly Jong-Fast, New York Post)"Su truco es que cuenta la verdad. Me temo que hara por su generacion lo que yo hice por la mia" (Hunter S. Thompson).

«Un puñetazo minimalista que radiografía sin moralina el no future de la generación post-11S de 2001. El hijo bastardo de Brett Easton Ellis y Douglas Coupland en noventa y siete polaroids y un epílo