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If you thought fiction couldn't get darker than David Peace's extraordinary debut, Nineteen Seventy Four, then think again. Nineteen Seventy Seven, the second instalment of the 'Red Riding Quartet', is one long nightmare. Its heroes - the half decent copper Bob Fraser and the burnt-out hack Jack Whitehead - would be considered villains in most people's books. Fraser and Whitehead have one thing in common though, they're both desperate men dangerously in love with Chapeltown prostitutes.
And as the summer moves remorselessly towards the bonfires of Jubilee Night, the killings accelerate and it seems as if Fraser and Whitehead are the only men who suspect or care that there may be more than one killer at large. Out of the horror of true crime, David Peace has fashioned a work of terrible beauty. Like James Ellroy before him, David Peace tells us the true and fearsome secret history of our times.
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The slow-burning, word-of-mouth success story of British publishing... These four books recreated the pervasive sense of terror and corruption with a hammering, semi-magical style loosely reminiscent of James Ellroy, but steeped in something far more bleak and English... the evil twin of Life On Mars... Peace may have succeeded in creating an enduring literature for a curiously undocumented area of Britain (Justin Quirk Guardian Guide 2009-02-28)
Bleakly brilliant (Radio Times 2009-02-28)
He's in a class of his own in terms of ambition. He's trying to write these alternative histories of events we know quite well in a challenging way. The fact that he's dealing with very English subjects from Japan is very interesting (Alex Clark editor of Granta Magazine)
Compelling (Sunday Times 2009-03-01)
A British crime master work.Required reading (Maxim 2009-04-01)
Original, difficult, brilliant (Observer 2009-03-01)
Haunting evocations of 70s and 80s Yorkshire - interlinking tales of very fallible coppers, very noir hacks, very human killers (Euan Ferguson Observer 2009-03-01)
Singular and memorable (Ian Jack Guardian 2009-03-14)
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Bleakly brilliant (Radio Times 2009-02-28)
He's in a class of his own in terms of ambition. He's trying to write these alternative histories of events we know quite well in a challenging way. The fact that he's dealing with very English subjects from Japan is very interesting (Alex Clark editor of Granta Magazine)
Compelling (Sunday Times 2009-03-01)
A British crime master work.Required reading (Maxim 2009-04-01)
Original, difficult, brilliant (Observer 2009-03-01)
Haunting evocations of 70s and 80s Yorkshire - interlinking tales of very fallible coppers, very noir hacks, very human killers (Euan Ferguson Observer 2009-03-01)
Singular and memorable (Ian Jack Guardian 2009-03-14)
Volume two in David Peace's newly reissued crime masterpiece The Red Riding Quartet
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- PublisherSerpent's Tail
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 1846687063
- ISBN 13 9781846687068
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