Synopses & Reviews
With Nineteen Eighty Three David Peace completes his Yorkshire Ripper Quartet, an astonishing noir epic. Three intertwining storylines see the Quartet's central themes of corruption and the perversion of justice come to a head: BJ, the rent boy from Nineteen Seventy Four, the lawyer Big John Pigott, and Maurice Jobson, the senior cop whose career of corruption and brutality has set all this in motion, find themselves on a collision course that can only end in a terrible vengeance. Nineteen Eighty Threeis a fitting conclusion for one of the finest series in contemporary British crime writing.
David Peace grew up in Yorkshire, England, in the 1970s and vividly remembers listening on the radio to the hoax tape of the Yorkshire Ripper. He now lives in Tokyo.
Synopsis
In Nineteen Eighty-Three, David Peace brings his astonishing series of riveting, gritty crime novels to a shocking conclusion. With three separate narrators whose paths are on a collision course, Peace makes a dark study of perverted justice, retribution, and urban decay. Maurice Jobson is a Yorkshire cop whose greed and corruption has rotted the police force to the core; BJ is a local street thug who finds he can no longer safely lurk in the shadows; and John Piggott, a lawyer, is as honest and forthright as they come. His investigation of a long-cold murder might just be the cure for Yorkshire’s woes, but he’ll need to get through it alive first.
About the Author
David Peace is the author of The Red Riding Quartet, GB84, The Damned Utd., Tokyo Year Zero, and Occupied City. 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. He lives in Yorkshire.