Volume three in David Peace's newly reissued crime masterpiece The Red Riding Quartet
David Peace grew up in Yorkshire in the '70's and vividly remembers listening to the hoax tape of the Yorkshire Ripper on his way home from school. He was selected as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists 2003. In 2007, he was named GQ Writer of the Year. He lives in Japan.
The slow-burning, word-of-mouth success story of British
publishing... These four books recreated the pervasive sense of
terror and corruption with a hammering, semi-magical style loosely
reminiscent of James Ellroy, but steeped in something far more
bleak and English... the evil twin of Life On Mars... Peace may
have succeeded in creating an enduring literature for a curiously
undocumented area of Britain -- Justin Quirk * Guaridan Guide *
Singular and memorable -- Ian Jack * Guardian *
Bleakly brilliant * Radio Times *
Compelling * Sunday Times *
He's in a class of his own in terms of ambition. He's trying to
write these alternative histories of events we know quite well in a
challenging way. The fact that he's dealing with very English
subjects from Japan is very interesting -- Alex Clark * editor of
Granta Magazine *
A British crime master work. Required reading... * Maxim *
Original, difficult, brilliant * Observer *
Haunting evocations of 70s and 80s Yorkshire - interlinking tales
of very fallible coppers, very noir hacks, very human killers --
Euan Ferguson * Observer *
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