Resumen
Nick 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. 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.
