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'Quite simply, this is the future of British crime fiction'. Time Out; 'Peace has found his own voice - full of dazzling, intense poetry and visceral violence' Uncut

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5.0 out of 5 stars Heart of darkness, 7 Jul 2004

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FOr anyone with even a passing interest in crime fiction, David Peace's Red Riding quartet is essential reading. Set in Yorkshire throughout the seventies and eighties, Peace balances the case of the Yorkshire Ripper with the theme of police corruption. Not cheerful stuff then, but fantastically crafted and well observed.

All four books are violent and disturbing outings. Peace's characters are cruel, selfish and self-loathing creations that stay with the reader long after the book is finished.

1983 is the final part of the quartet and should only be read after completing the first three. This isn't the type of series you can miss bits out of.

As usual the plot is tense and draws the reader in. The kind of book that takes one long sitting, it is very hard to put down. Indeed, due to the breakneck pace of Peace's startling prose, it is often impossible to withdraw from the narrative at all.

This novel is the strongest of the four, utillising a tight yet intricate structure, thrusting the reader back and forth across the decades revealing startling truths about the characters, many of whom are familiar from earlier in the series.

Indeed, many of the images used here are also familiar from earlier giving the reader a sense of a claustrophobic communal nightmare.

If you've never read any David Peace, I suggest starting with the superb 1974 and working your way through. If you've already read the first three books, you need to read this. But then you know that already.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A stunning conclusion to the Quartet, 27 Dec 2002

By	Mr. Scott Wortley (Falkirk, Scotland) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

When a figure dominates a genre as James Ellroy does modern crime fiction, then it is inevitable that blurb writers suggest unnatural comparisons between authors and the master. Many have suffered. Ian Rankin is Scotland's Ellroy; and David Peace is Yorkshire's. While some writers suffer from the comparison, Peace does not.

His series of novels set in and around Leeds at the time of the Yorkshire Ripper murders is in my view the finest modern British series in crime fiction. Dark, desperate, highly stylised, moving, they engage with modern Britain - drawing on a number of topical themes: abuse; corruption; conspiracy.

This the final novel in the quartet revisits many of the threads initiated in 1974, but are presented in such a way that knowledge of the previous novels is not necessary.

The three principals here: BJ, a rent boy, Piggot, a corrupt solicitor, and Jobson, a corrupt policeman, are set in three different interlinking narratives. In demonstrating how his style has developed since his earlier work, here various devices are used effortlessly. Piggot's chapters are written in the second person, BJ refers to himself continually in the third person. The device differentiates the narrative threads, but also serves to demonstrate the distancing each character has from their story.

The characters are all too human, complex people with complex motivations. Violence is presented explictly, the consequences of actions explored (throughout the whole of the twenty five year span covered by the novel).

The subject matter - violent child murders and abuse - may be too much for some. The writing style may be too much for others. BUt make no mistake, David Peace is the most exciting and most important thing that has happened to crime fiction in the UK in a very long time.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A fitting conclusion to a stunning series, 1 Dec 2002

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The "Red Riding" quartet shudders to a shocking climax in this raw,disturbing novel. Peace's style becomes more staccato with every volume;paragraphs become sentences; sentences become words; words become curses,and the physical and mental degradation and damage his protagonists gothrough becomes ever more disturbing. In David Peace's books, there'svery little difference between cops and victims, lawyers and criminals -everyone lives in a world of fear, pain, terror. Anyone can die at anymoment - or worse, they can remain alive to deal with the physical andmental scars.Nineteen Eighty-Three is again dominated by the corrupt, horrificpsychological landscape of West Yorkshire, the hearts of its people asbleak and empty as the moors above the hellish towns. This time we'vealso got the backdrop of an ever-more evil government, an ever-morecorrupt system - in the clash between bent cop Jobson and bent lawyerPigott that forms the backbone of this story and closes the series it'shard to tell which man is more damaged, more amoral. Peace's universe iscomplex and frightening.Is Leeds the hero or villain of this series? Who knows. Peace's Leeds isevery bit as grimly delineated as Chandler's or Ellroy's LA, Rankin'sEdinburgh, or Hiaasen's Florida.Not an easy read, but a compelling and thrilling one.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A fitting conclusion to the darkly beutiful series
I still find it difficult to understand how some reviewers continue to moan about how they find the use of swear words and its darkness make it a terrible terrible book despite... Read more

Published 4 days ago by F. Wight

5.0 out of 5 stars Red Riding Nineteen Eighty Three

Having watched the trilogy on television I wanted to read the books and wasn't disappointed dark and forbidding but once you start reading the story grips you more please!!

Published 13 days ago by Mrs. Colleen Ann Wardale

5.0 out of 5 stars It's grim up North!
If you are searching for a novel that will make you feel good, then I advise you keep searching. But, if a grim protrayal of police corruption, the violence of society or the evil... Read more

Published 2 months ago by Mr. Wesley H. Winegarden

1.0 out of 5 stars Bewildering and obtuse
I bought the whole Red Riding set having watched the TV drama, as there were many unanswered questions in what seemed like a fascinating tale. I remain unlightened. Read more

Published 5 months ago by Mrs. J. Stevens

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I just finished reading the final book in the series and felt compelled to write ( for the first time ) a review of the books. Read more

Published 5 months ago by Mr. C. Robinson

3.0 out of 5 stars Bold and imaginative but does it work?
The fourth novel in Peace's Red Riding Quartet is every bit as violent, as demanding and as elusive as the first three. Read more

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3.0 out of 5 stars Hysterical
The final volume of the Red Riding Quartet cleverly tied together many of the themes of the previous books, but unfortunately became extremely difficult to follow in the final... Read more

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2.0 out of 5 stars thank god for the TV series
I purchased the 4 "Red Riding" books on the basis of having watched the TV series and then wondered why I had bothered. Read more

Published 6 months ago by D. J. Hards

4.0 out of 5 stars Very dark,but excellent,gripping read.
This is a disturbing,but gripping read,which is difficult to put down.As with the other novels in the trilogy,they are based on the Yorkshire Ripper Murders and convey the fear... Read more

Published 7 months ago by B. A. Marfleet

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I read all four in the series on the back of watching all three of the Channel 4 adaptations. Both versions held my attention. Read more

Published 7 months ago by Mr. Roy J. Henderson

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