Nineteen Seventy Four (The Red Riding Quartet)

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Nineteen Seventy Four is . . . hard to hold in your hand but harder to put down. - New York Times Book Review The finest crime fiction debut of the year! -George P. Pelecanos
It's winter, 1974, Yorkshire, and Ed Dunford, crime correspondent for the Evening Post, didn't know it was going to be a season in hell. A dead little girl with swan's wings stitched to her back. A gypsy camp in a ring of fire. Corruption everywhere you look.
Born in Yorkshire, David Peace now lives in Tokyo with his wife and son.

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""Nineteen Seventy Four" is . . . hard to hold in your hand but harder to put down."-"New York Times Book Review" "The finest crime fiction debut of the year!"-George P. Pelecanos
It's winter, 1974, Yorkshire, and Ed Dunford, crime correspondent for the "Evening Post," didn't know it was going to be a season in hell. A dead little girl with swan's wings stitched to her back. A gypsy camp in a ring of fire. Corruption everywhere you look.
Born in Yorkshire, David Peace now lives in Tokyo with his wife and son.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 304
Edition: Main
Publisher: Serpent's Tail
Published: 12 Oct 2000
ISBN 10: 1852427418
ISBN 13: 9781852427412

Media Reviews

?Breathless, extravagant, ultra-violent... Vinnie Jones should buy the film rights fast? Independent on Sunday
Peace has found his own voice ? full of dazzling, intense poetry and visceral violence -- Uncut ?David Peace?s stunning debut has done for the county what Raymond Chandler and James Ellroy did for Los Angeles?This is a brilliant first novel * written with tremendous pace and passion? Yorkshire Post ?One hell of a read? Crime Time *

Author Bio

David Peace grew up in Yorkshire in the '70's and vividly remembers listening to the hoax tape of the Yorkshire Ripper on his way home from school. He was selected as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists 2003. He lives in Japan.