The 25th Hour - Rilegato

'Acerbically captivating first novel...Benioff creates a pungent, funny urban tableau full of shrewd operators and unfulfilled desires. He gives this slim, engaging book a colorful range...Benioff delivers as full a surprise as the situation demands. But what makes his book enjoyable beyond his mere mechanics is the character study that develops as old friends get together and begin provoking one another' - NEW YORK TIMES (New York Times)

'Acerbically captivating first novel...Benioff creates a pungent, funny urban tableau full of shrewd operators and unfulfilled desires' - NEW YORK TIMES (The New York Times)

As unusual as it is well wrought: it resonates with a Whitmanesque sense of the city's possibilities and unsatisfied longings (The New Yorker)

'Much acclaimed debut set on New York's mean streets.' - BOOKSELLER (Bookseller)

'This gritty New York novel is bound to set tongues wagging' - GLAMOUR (Glamour)

'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' - ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY (Entertainment Weekly)

'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' - PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (Publishers Weekly)

'As funny and sad as a John Cassavettes movie, but without all that midlife-crisis yammering' - KIRKUS REVIEWS (Kirkus Reviews)

'An unforgettable portrait of a cosmopolitan city on the edge.' - GOOD BOOK GUIDE (Good Book Guide)

'Gripping crime' - ICE (ICE)

David Benioff has published articles and stories in GQ, Seventeen and Zoetrope, as well as in the anthologies The Ex-Files and Best New American Voices 2000. Born and raised in New York City, he now lives in Los Angeles. This is his first novel.