Nineteen Seventy-Four by David Peace

Nineteen Seventy-Four by David Peace

The first installment of David Peace's electrifying Red Riding Quartet vividly brings to life a gritty, dangerous working class city tormented by a series of brutal murders. Nineteen Seventy-Four follows Eddie Dunford, the newly minted crime correspondent for the Yorkshire Post. His first story is about Clare Kemplay, a young girl recently found brutally murdered. While the police department and other crime reporters at the newspaper believe it's an isolated incident, Eddie finds a pattern between Clare's disappearance and those of other girls from a few years earlier. Despite his better judgment, and against the advice of others, he starts to dig deep. What he finds is a nightmare of corruption, violence, blackmail, and obsession that ultimately leads to a shocking, explosive conclusion.

David Peace was born and raised in Yorkshire, England, and was awarded one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists in 2003. He is the author of the Red Riding Quartet (Nineteen Seventy-seven, Nineteen Eighty, and Nineteen Eighty-three), which was converted into a three-part BBC series, GB84, which won the James Tait Black Memorial Award, and The Damned Utd, which was adapted into a film starring Michael Sheen. In 2007, he released Tokyo Year Zero, the first installment of his famed Tokyo Trilogy, and in 2009, he released Occupied City, the second installment.

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ISBN 13	9780307455086
ISBN 10	0307455084
Title	Nineteen Seventy-Four
Author	David Peace
Series	Red Riding Quartet
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2009-02-10
Number of pages	320
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