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by David Peace (Author) "Leeds. Sunday 29 May 1977. It's happening again: When the two sevens clash.. ..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 352 pages
  • Publisher: Serpent's Tail; New edition edition (12 Jul 2001)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1852427442
  • ISBN-13: 978-1852427443
  • Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 13 x 2.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 245,048 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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John Simm (Life on Mars) in Word Magazine, March 2006

'Powerful, intense, gritty’

‘Peace’s writing style is incredible, he has a brilliant, unique voice’



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Second in the "Red Riding Quartet", this tale is set in Jubilee year. Its heroes, the half-decent copper Bof Fraser and the burnt-out hack Jack Whitehead are the only two who suspect that there is more than one killer at large among the Chapeltown whores.
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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Northern noir for those who like their meat very rare, 1 Oct 2000
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This review is from: Nineteen Seventy Seven: Red Riding Quartet (Paperback)
West Yorkshire. Silver Jubilee. Yorkshire Ripper. A bent copper. Drunken journalist. Whore lovers. Corruption. Mutilation. HATE. HATE.

Not an easy read, and not a comfortable one, but an absolutely compulsive, rivetting psychological/procedural noir novel with a rock-solid grasp of location. Everyone else says it so I suppose I'll have to - Peace writes in a style similar to James Ellroy (the parts of the book narrated by Bob Fraser remind me in particular of Ellroy's Dave Klein in "White Jazz") and covers similar subject matter; but Peace has a distinct voice and a different agenda to Ellroy.

A superb and chilling novel. Unmissable.

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15 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Sensational Sequel, 5 Sep 2000
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This review is from: Nineteen Seventy Seven: Red Riding Quartet (Paperback)
Nineteen Seventy Seven is the second in Peace's Yorkshire Quartet; four books that chronicle the secret history of Yorkshire from the Seventies to the Eighties. I'm a big fan of the first book, Nineteen Seventy Four and this sequel is even better. Set against the background of the Silver Jubilee, foul weather, punk and reggae sounds, this is the harrowing but engrossing tale of a journalist and a policeman who are sucked into the devastating spiral of despair caused by the crimes of the Yorkshire Ripper. The prose and plotting are simply superb, the former verging on a kind of brutal but beautiful poetry. Quite simply Nineteen Seventy Seven is the best novel of any genre I've read since his last book. Bring on the next!
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2.0 out of 5 stars poor, 9 May 2009
This review is from: Nineteen Seventy Seven: Red Riding Quartet (Paperback)
As a fan of James Ellroy and a resident in Yorkshire I have just finished 1974 and 1977. They are very average. Whilst Ellroy's sparse, vernacular abrupt and at times hard to follow somehow creates a complete picture in your head of what is going on, Peace's work just seems to confuse. I got fed up trying to follow the 2nd rate poetic allusions and was glad as they were never truly revealed. At times gripping and an absorbing tale, but ultimately too many loose ends and people being haunted by characters(Only named, never given backstory) from the past for no real reason. Explanations when they come are proposterous leaving me having finished this book like someone has torn out half the pages from it! Very frustrating and very disappointing.
oh and very seedy. The recurring anal rapes through Peace's books to punish women are just cheap and nasty.
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2.0 out of 5 stars Not NOT nice at ALL
I like David Peace. I'm a big fan of "The Damned United" and I've read all of the Red Riding Quartet, of which this is the second book. Read more
Published 22 days ago by Philip Turton

3.0 out of 5 stars Bleak
I purchased the four novels of the Red Riding quartet in anticipation of the TV adaptations. Unfortunately, they are unremittingly bleak full of depressing locations and morally... Read more
Published 1 month ago by R. Morrison

5.0 out of 5 stars Peace finds his hold in the second in the Bloody Red Riding Quartet
The first book I must admit nearly completly put me off the series. I was left feeling let down at what I felt was a weak plot held up only by a strong main character and some... Read more
Published 2 months ago by F. Wight

1.0 out of 5 stars Awful pretentious rubbish
Well that's a few days of my life I'm not going to get back. After being thrilled with 1974, I could not wait to start reading this book but now I wished I hadn't bothered. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Gareth Ross

5.0 out of 5 stars red riding
A hell of a book ....not for the sqeamish..I have now read the entire set and this is the best of the four.Took me two days to read on holiday ...which is quick for me!!!
Published 3 months ago by Mr. A. Mcainey

3.0 out of 5 stars Not for the faint hearted casual reader
Glad I read other reviews after reading 1977 because I was about to start re reading it immediately , thinking I'd failed to grasp why the ending was like " eh what ...? Read more
Published 5 months ago by Blueeyes

3.0 out of 5 stars Second in the series
The second part of the Red Riding Quartet is set three years later than the first. As Yorkshire is gripped by the Ripper killings, police officer Bob Fraser and crime reporter... Read more
Published 5 months ago by DDH255

1.0 out of 5 stars Dire
I bought the Red Riding quartet after watching the dramatisation on TV. I didn't really enjoy it but for some perverse reason decided to read the novels as I usually find them... Read more
Published 6 months ago by Mr. J. Murphy

1.0 out of 5 stars Dreadfully Overratedad
Having now read all four books after having watched the series on TV, I feel cheated and conned.
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Published 6 months ago by Mr. J. Holmes

2.0 out of 5 stars Nineteen Seventy Seven (Red Riding Quartet)
I bought all four of these books and the first one was so hard to read full of the F and C words used needlessly. Read more
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