Overview

David Peace's acclaimed Red Riding Quartet continues with this exhilarating follow-up to Nineteen Seventy-Four. It's summer in Leeds and the city is anxiously awaiting the Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth's reign. Detective Bob Fraser and Jack Whitehead, a reporter at the Post, however, have other things on their minds-mainly the fact that someone is murdering prostitutes. The killer is quickly dubbed the “Yorkshire Ripper” and each man, on their own, works tirelessly to catch him. But their investigations turn grisly as they each engage in affairs with the prostitutes they are supposedly protecting. As the summer progresses, 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.

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David Peace is transforming the genre with passion and style. <br>--George Pelecanos <br> Simply superb.... Peace has single-handedly established the genre of Yorkshire Noir, and mightily satisfying it is.... A must-read thriller. <br>-- Yorkshire Post (UK) <br> Peace's powerful novel exposes a side of life which most of us would prefer to ignore. <br>-- Daily Mail (UK)

David Peace is transforming the genre with passion and style. -George Pelecanos This is the future of British crime fiction. . . . Extraordinary and original. -Time Out Simply superb. . . . Peace is a masterful storyteller, and Nineteen Seventy-Seven is impossible to put down. . . . A must-read thriller. -Yorkshire Post Peace's powerful novel exposes a side of life which most of us would prefer to ignore. -Daily Mail

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David Peace is the author of The Red Riding Quartet, GB84,The Damned Utd and Tokyo Year Zero. He was chosen as one of Granta's 2003 Best Young British Novelists, and has received the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the German Crime Fiction Award, and the French Grand Prix de Roman Noir for Best Foreign Novel. Born and raised in Yorkshire, he has lived in Tokyo since 1994.

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