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 th
Nineteen Seventy-four
โ Scribed by David Peace
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Year
- 1999;2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 145 KB
- Edition
- 1st Vintage Crime/Black Lizard ed
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0307741648
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โฆ 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.
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