McCann's close-focus descriptive prose – taut, compressed, image-rich – flashes like sunken treasure … Few novelists pay such close, visionary, heed to the “true stories of our times”

FINANCIAL TIMES

McCann gives his tale the sense of a held breath … Part thriller, part existential mediation on self

NEW STATESMAN

McCann may follow Coppola upriver and Conrad to the heart of darkness but the concerns of his novel are contemporary and urgent and utterly compelling. This is an ambitious novel, note perfect, wild but controlled, with its deft apparatus mapping our most mysterious 21st century malaise – the great loneliness of the connected world

KEVIN BARRY

Full of wonder at the scale and beauty of the natural world – and full of anger at humanity's capacity to wreck it … There are passages of extraordinary vividness, evoked with a power that seems to persuade you that you're either a participant or a witness ... Builds to a bravura climactic escapade ... I loved the thoughtful, essayistic inquiries into nature and the environment, and the consciousness-raising voyage towards the broken cable … Like Heart of Darkness, Twist lingers after you've put it down

GUARDIAN

An exhilarating adventure reminiscent of Joseph Conrad, with just a hint of Graham Greene

MAIL ON SUNDAY

Masterful, a surprising, electric book ... A wired up story of what it means to be bend yourself into new shapes, and be broken

IRISH TIMES