Nineteen Eighty-Three The Red Riding Quartet, Book Four |
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| Author:
| Peace, David |
| Series title: | Red Riding Quartet Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-307-45513-0 |
| Publication Date: | Feb 2010 |
| Publisher: | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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| Imprint: | Vintage Crime/Black Lizard |
| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $17.00 |
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Nineteen Eighty-Three, David Peace brings his astonishing series of riveting, gritty crime novels to a shocking conclusion.nbsp; With three separate narrators whose paths are on a collision course, Peace makes a dark study of perverted justice, retribution, and urban decay.nbsp; 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,...
More DescriptionIn Nineteen Eighty-Three, David Peace brings his astonishing series of riveting, gritty crime novels to a shocking conclusion.nbsp; With three separate narrators whose paths are on a collision course, Peace makes a dark study of perverted justice, retribution, and urban decay.nbsp; 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.nbsp; 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.