Nineteen Eighty by David Peace
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?
'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
David Peace was born in 1967 and grew up in Ossett, near Wakefield. In 1994 he took up a teaching post in Tokyo and now lives there with his family. He wrote the Red Riding Quartet from 1999 to 2002, and has since written two more novels, The Damned United and Tokyo Year Zero. In May 2008 his work was the subject of a South Bank Show.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781847245373 |
| ISBN 10 | 1847245374 |
| Title | Nineteen Eighty |
| Author | David Peace |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Quercus Publishing |
| Year published | 2009-10-01 |
| Number of pages | 400 |
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