00:23

As the century grinds to a close, Diana Spencer and her Egyptian lover are visiting Paris. According to some accounts they will become engaged. According to some accounts there are those who will go to any lengths to put an end to her increasingly unpredictable trajectory. There are stirrings in the covert world, and as the Harrods gulfstream bearing the lovers nears Paris, other elements start to fall into place.

An international fixer with an interest to protect puts a team in place to watch the Princess. A former Special Branch man is recruited by his former handler as part of the team. They are joined by his former lover. The Ritz deputy director of security and a paparazzo supreme are their surveillance targets. But they are not the only ones watching Spencer, and it soon becomes apparent that perhaps their street-level chicanery isn't equal to the events unfolding around them.

Set in the shadows and margins of our own recent history '12:23' sees Eoin McNamee weave a fictional narrative of dark imaginative power around the strange events of that Parisian summer.