Nineteen Seventy-Four: The Red Riding Quartet, Book One

Peace, David

ISBN 10: 0307455084 / ISBN 13: 9780307455086

Published by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2009

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Nineteen Seventy-Four: The Red Riding Quartet, Book One
• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0307455084
• ISBN 13: 9780307455086
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: good

About this title

Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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.