Nineteen Eighty Three: The Red Riding Quartet, Book Four: 4 (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard) - Tapa blanda

"A major achievement. . . . Peace's voice is powerful and unique. This is compelling stuff." --The Guardian

"Rarely has the crime novel managed to say something more serious and enduring than in Peace's masterful quartet." --New Statesman

"Magnificent. . . . Nineteen Eighty-Three is Peace's best yet." --Yorkshire Post

"Fiction that comes with a sense of moral gravity. . . . A fierce indictment of the era." --The Independent

"Peace is a manic James Joyce of the crime novel . . . invoking the horror of grim lives, grim crimes, and grim times." --Sleazenation

"[Peace] exposes a side of life which most of us would prefer to ignore." --Daily Mail

"David Peace is the future of crime fiction. . . . A fantastic talent." --Ian Rankin

"British crime fiction's most exciting new voice in decades." --GQ

"[David Peace is] transforming the genre with passion and style." --George Pelecanos

"Peace has single-handedly established the genre of Yorkshire Noir, and mightily satisfying it is." --Yorkshire Post

"A compelling and devastating body of work that pushes Peace to the forefront of British writing." --Time Out (London)

"A writer of immense talent and power. . . . If Northern Noir is the crime fashion of the moment, Peace is its most brilliant designer." --The Times (London)

"Peace has found his own voice---full of dazzling, intense poetry and visceral violence." --Uncut

"A tour de force of crime fiction which confirms David Peace's reputation as one of the most important names in contemporary crime literature." --Crime Tim

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.