Red Riding Nineteen Eighty (Red Riding Quartet) [Paperback]

'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 --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

'Set in a world in which black comes in many shades, this powerful, stark and strangely poetic series is turning into a considerable achievement' Guardian. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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.

Winter 1980. The Yorkshire Ripper has just claimed his thirteenth victim. Ripper thirteen, police nil. As public anger against the police mounts, Assistant Chief Constable Peter Hunter is sent to take over the investigation. The Strafford Shootings remain unsolved, and the murders of the Jubilee summer of 1977 are still attributed to the Ripper. But Hunter soon realises that all is not as it seems - and that the police are more heavily implicated in the killings than anyone could have imagined. Jack Whitehead, alone and mad in a mental institution after trying to exorcise the demons from his head with hammer and nail, appears to hold the key. What is the connection between the Ripper and this fresh spate of violence? And what will happen when these men's separate hells collide? --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

'Set in a world in which black comes in many shades, this powerful, stark and strangely poetic series is turning into a considerable achievement' Guardian 'An intense account of an investigation carried out amid mounting public anger as the Ripper kills for the 13th - and final - time' New Statesman The third novel in David Peace's acclaimed Red Riding Quartet sees Yorkshire terrorised by the Ripper while the corrupt police familiar from 1974 and 1977 continue to prosper. Weaving his own extraordinary fiction around the terrible history of the time, David Peace has once again produced a darkly powerful portrait of a time and a place gone very wrong. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

David Peace grew up in Yorkshire in the '70's and vividly remembers listening to the hoax tape of the Yorkshire Ripper on his way home from school. He was selected as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists 2003. He lives in Japan.