Nineteen Eighty

"Set in a world in which black comes in many shades, this powerful, stark and strangely poetic series is turning into a considerable achievement."-"Guardian" The third novel in David Peace's acclaimed Red Riding Quartet sees Yorkshire terrorized by the Ripper while the corrupt police continue to prosper. Weaving his own extraordinary fiction around the terrible history of the time, David Peace has once again produced a thriller that goes above and beyond the limits of the genre.

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. He lives in Yorkshire, England.