- Paperback: 386 pages
- Publisher: Serpent's Tail (12 July 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1852426942
- ISBN-13: 978-1852426941
- Product Dimensions: 21 x 13.4 x 3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (24 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,368,319 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'A compelling and devastating body of work that pushes Peace to the forefront of British writing' Time Out; 'Peace has found his own voice - full of dazzling, intense poetry and visceral violence' Uncut; 'With a human landscape that is violent and unrelentingly bleak, Peace's fiction is two or three shades the other side of noir' New Statesman
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Third in a series of unique but connected thrillers set against an evolving backdrop of immense social change. The noir nightmare continues during the harsh winter of 1980. The Ripper murders his thirteenth victim and the whole of Yorkshire is terrorised. Assistant Chief Constable Hunter struggles to solve the hellish crimes and bring an end to the horror, but is drawn ever deeper into a world of corruption and sleaze. After his house is burned down, his wife?s life is threatened and his colleagues turn against him, Hunter?s quest becomes personal as he is left with nothing more to lose. Nineteen Eighty is a compelling battle between two desperate men, each determined to destroy the other. The latest dark Yorkshire journey confirms Peace?s reputation as one of the most talented contemporary crime writers.
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17 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Best yet from Master Peace!,
By James Riley (jimmyriley69@hotmail.com) (London, England, UK.) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Red Riding Nineteen Eighty (Red Riding Quartet) (Paperback)
Peace's Red Riding Quartet is rapidly turning from The British Crime Series into the best British Quartet ever, regardless of genre. I have never read anything quite like it. Each book is different from the last and they just get better and better. Nineteen Seventy Four was full on,in yer face Ultra Noir, Seventy Seven was like Dickens imagining Ellroy in an opium dream. And Eighty, well you just want to read the first so-called Transmission. From the British Ellroy to the New Dante in two books. This man is our best writer, period. Read him.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Perhaps not every copper in the force is bent?,
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This review is from: Red Riding Nineteen Eighty (Red Riding Quartet) (Paperback)
The third in Peace's series of dark and dirty police thrillers, set in West Yorkshire and definitely the best so far. Covering the year in which the Yorkshire Ripper was at last apprehended, the novel adheres very closely to the facts of the case, going back in great detail over all of the Ripper's killings. Peace changes the names of the victims, some of the locations (but not all) and the identities of people most involved in the case. George Oldfield, becomes George Oldman, Peter Sutcliffe becomes Peter Williams. Oldfield's fixation on the Ripper tape and a man with a Geordie accent is covered, as are the details of many of Sutcliffe's crimes, his modus operandi and his background as a lorry driver.
There is an over-reliance, as in the other books in this series, on a kind of lyrical frenzy for effect, but this time it seems at least partly justified. As anyone who lived through the "Ripper years" could testify, the shock and disbelief as the killings mounted leant a kind of hyper-reality to the fall of night, especially towards the end of the series of murders, when Sutcliffe was as likely to murder a woman nipping to the shops as a prostitute plying her trade. There is less gratuitous obscenity in this third book, perhaps because the reality of these obscene crimes renders it redundant. The main protagonist is another copper - and the background of corruption and cynicism is ever-present, but this time it seems muted. Perhaps not every copper in the force is bent? The Ripper denied doing some of the murders the police had him down for, and in this novel Peace pins them on a corrupt copper. Suicides are abundant, cover-ups just par for the course. It is a dark, disturbing vision of the business of being a detective in the English police force. Having read this book, one could be forgiven for eyeing every policeman with dread and suspicion.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
A remarkable and violent novel,
This review is from: Red Riding Nineteen Eighty: Red Riding Quartet (Paperback)
The third volume in David Peace's quartet moves forward to 1980 and focuses on the character of Peter Hunter, the senior police officer investigating the actions of the police investigating the case of the Yorkshire Ripper but Hunter himself falls under suspicion when one of his friends is arrested and his wife comes under threat. Like the previous two novels this is a journey into the recent past, depicted in all its bloody violence. Peace brings the motives and actions of all characters into question, his descriptions of the sadistic attacks almost unbearably graphic. The characters who move in and out of this world are strange figures and the reader can never be sure who is telling the truth and who can be trusted. It is written at a compelling pace and leaves you uncertain which questions have been answered.
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