Nick McDonell

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).

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.

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 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.

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

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.

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.

Since the beginning of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, uncounted thousands of civilians have died in the fighting and as a result of the destruction. These are deaths for which no one assumes responsibility and which have been presented, historically, as fallout. No one knows their true number. In The Bodies in Person, Nick McDonell introduces us to some of the civilians who died, along with the rescue workers who tried to save them, U.S. soldiers grappling with their deaths, and everyone in between. He shows us how decent Americans, inside and outside the government and military, looked away from the mounting death toll, even as they claimed to do everything in their power to prevent civilian casualties. With a novelists eye and hundreds of hours of recorded interviews McDonell brings us the untold story of the innocent dead in Americas ongoing wars, from leveled cities to drone operation centers to Capitol back rooms. As we follow him around the world, The Bodies in Person raises questions not only about what it means to be an American, but about the value of a life, what it means to risk one, and what is owed afterward.

A bold and deeply personal exploration of wealth, power, and the American elite, exposing how the ruling classintentionally or notperpetuates cycles of injustice"[A] story about American inequity, and how it mindlessly, immorally, reproduces itself. Unlike most such stories, however, this one left me believing in the possibility...of drastic change." Maggie Nelson, author of On FreedomNick McDonell grew up on New York Citys Upper East Side, a neighborhood defined by its wealth and influence. As a child, McDonell enjoyed everything that rarefied world entailedsailing lessons in the Hamptons, school galas at the Met, and holiday trips on private jets. But as an adult, he left it behind to become a foreign correspondent in Iraq and Afghanistan.In Quiet Street, McDonell returns to the sidewalks of his youth, exhuming with bracing honesty his upbringing and those of his affluent peers. From Galapagos Island cruises and Tanzanian safaris to steely handshakes and schoolyard microaggressions to fox-hunting rituals and the courtship rites of sexually precocious tweens, McDonell examines the rearing of the ruling class in scalpel-sharp detail, documenting how wealth and power are hoarded, encoded, and passed down from one generation to the next. Whats more, he demonstrates how outsidersthe poor, the nonwhite, the suburbanare kept out.Searing and precise yet ultimately full of compassion, Quiet Street examines the problem of Americas one percent, whose vision of a more just world never materializes. Who are these people? How do they cling to power? What would it take for them to share it? Quiet Street looks for answers in a universal experience: coming to terms with the culture that made you.

White Mike es delgado, pálido y distante; lleva el pelo rubio muy corto, viste tejanos, sudadera con capucha y un oscuro abrigo Brook Brothers. Ascético y solitario, no fuma, no bebe, no se droga. Lee a Camus y a Nietzsche, y ha terminado el instituto. Era un buen estudiante, pero ahora lleva seis meses sin hacer nada y todos suponen que se ha tomado un año sabatico antes de empezar la universidad. O mas de un año. Entretanto, White Mike se ha convertido en un camello sumamente eficaz y esta ganando una pequeña fortuna. Que, sin duda, aumentara considerablemente en los cinco dias proximos, entre Navidad y Año Nuevo, cuando todos los estudiantes de la privilegiada burguesia a la que tambien pertenece White Mike vuelvan de sus casas de vacaciones, avidos de drogas, sexo y juerga. Alli estaran los jovencisimos Mark Rothko y Timmy, que aspiran a ser gangsters -o al menos a parecerlo- y merodean por Manhattan robando CDs de hip-hop, hablando la jerga de los negros, buscando drogas y comprando alcohol y tabaco con documentos de identidad falsos. Y la guapisima Sara Ludlow, la chica mas popular de su universidad, ocupada en organizar fiestas para conseguir su mayor ambicion en la vida: ser famosa. Y su amiga Jessica, menos guapa que Sara y bastante mas torturada, que es una adicta al Twelve, la nueva droga de diseño. Y Claude, que ha sustituido la adiccion a la cocaina por la aficion a las armas, que compra en Chinatown y almacena en su dormitorio...Cada tantos años, aparece un autor muy joven, casi adolescente, que da cuenta de la entrada a la vida de su generacion, de las maneras en que va cambiando el mundo y refleja, pero tambien construye, los nuevos lenguajes, los nuevos estilos, las nuevas mitologias. Son novelas sintomaticas que se constituyen en hitos y tienen la intensidad de lo narrado a ras del suelo, de lo que se esta contando y viviendo. Sucedio hace unos años con Menos que cero, de Bret Easton Ellis, y sucede ahora con Twelve, de Nick McDonell.

En 2009, le magazine Time envoie Nick Mc Donnell, alors âgé de 25 ans, sur le front irakien. Accompagnant la première Division de cavalerie américaine jusqu’à Bagdad et Mossoul, il nous offre une des

Mike Teak est un diplômé de Harvard comme les autres – du moins en apparence. Sportif de haut niveau, issu d’une famille aisée, il est recruté pour intégrer les services secrets américains. Lors d’un

White Mike es delgado, pálido y distante; lleva el pelo rubio muy corto, viste tejanos, sudadera con capucha y un oscuro abrigo Brook Brothers. Ascético y solitario, no fuma, no bebe, no se droga. Lee a Camus y a Nietzsche, y ha terminado el instituto. Era un buen estudiante, pero ahora lleva seis meses sin hacer nada y todos suponen que se ha tomado un año sabatico antes de empezar la universidad. O mas de un año. Entretanto, White Mike se ha convertido en un camello sumamente eficaz y esta ganando una pequeña fortuna. Que, sin duda, aumentara considerablemente en los cinco dias proximos, entre Navidad y Año Nuevo, cuando todos los estudiantes de la privilegiada burguesia a la que tambien pertenece White Mike vuelvan de sus casas de vacaciones, avidos de drogas, sexo y juerga. Alli estaran los jovencisimos Mark Rothko y Timmy, que aspiran a ser gangsters -o al menos a parecerlo- y merodean por Manhattan robando CDs de hip-hop, hablando la jerga de los negros, buscando drogas y comprando alcohol y tabaco con documentos de identidad falsos. Y la guapisima Sara Ludlow, la chica mas popular de su universidad, ocupada en organizar fiestas para conseguir su mayor ambicion en la vida: ser famosa. Y su amiga Jessica, menos guapa que Sara y bastante mas torturada, que es una adicta al Twelve, la nueva droga de diseño. Y Claude, que ha sustituido la adiccion a la cocaina por la aficion a las armas, que compra en Chinatown y almacena en su dormitorio...Cada tantos años, aparece un autor muy joven, casi adolescente, que da cuenta de la entrada a la vida de su generacion, de las maneras en que va cambiando el mundo y refleja, pero tambien construye, los nuevos lenguajes, los nuevos estilos, las nuevas mitologias. Son novelas sintomaticas que se constituyen en hitos y tienen la intensidad de lo narrado a ras del suelo, de lo que se esta contando y viviendo. Sucedio hace unos años con Menos que cero, de Bret Easton Ellis, y sucede ahora con Twelve, de Nick McDonell.