1980

Resumen del libro

Winter, 1980. The Yorkshire Ripper has just claimed his thirteenth victim. Ripper thirteen, police nil.

As public anger against the police mounts, Assistant Chief Constable Peter Hunter is sent to take over the investigation. The Strafford Shootings remain unsolved, and the murders of the Jubilee summer of 1977 are still attributed to the Ripper. But Hunter soon realises that all is not as it seems - and that the police are more heavily implicated in the killings than anyone could have imagined.

Jack Whitehead, alone and mad in a mental institution after trying to exorcise the demons from his head with hammer and nail, appears to hold the key. What is the connection between the Ripper and this fresh spate of violence? And what will happen when these men's separate hells collide?
His best yet, a top-drawer thriller which grabs the reader by the scruff of the neck and doesn't let go until the last page...His writing these days stands in comparison with American masters like Raymond Chandler, J ames Ellroy and Walter Mosley... Another winner from David Peace, whose name on the cover is these days a guarantee of excellence, a must-read thriller of originality and style that confirms him to be one of the best crime writers anywhere' Yorkshire Post

He has found his own,equally experimental, approach and it further enhances the oppressively sombre tone... an impressive addition to the noir genre' Metro

Read a book by David Peace. If you want to know what Leeds was like in the 70s and early 80s then David Peace is the authority.' Leeds Guide

The pace is relentless, the violence gut-wrenching, the style staccato-plus and the morality bleak and forlorn, but Peace's voice is powerful and unique. This is compelling stuff that will leave no one indifferent' Guardian

David Peace is British crime fiction's most exciting new voice in decades' GQ

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

Biografía del autor

David Peace (Osset, Yorkshire del Oeste, 1967) vive desde hace años en Tokio, ya que la atmósfera de su Inglaterra natal le resulta asfixiante para escribir . Esa distancia le permite desarrollar, una inusual narrativa del inmigrante , según sus propias palabras, fuertemente arraigada en la Inglaterra thatcheriana, oscura y deshumanizada, en la que él nació y creció. En 2003 fue elegido como uno de los jóvenes talentos del año por la revista Granta tras publicar el célebre Cuarteto de Yorkshire (1974, 1977, 1980 y 1983, Alba Editorial), la historia de un asesino en serie que actuó en el condado de Yorkshire durante los citados años. Seguiría la Trilogía de Tokio, Tokio, año cero y Ciudad ocupada (que reeditará próximamente Hoja de Lata) y las novelas de ambientación futbolística Maldito United (Contra, 2015) y Red or Dead. Con GB84 Peace ganó el Premio James Tait Black Memorial en 2004, narrando la derrota de izquierda política y el violento triunfo del neoliberalismo a través de la huelga de los mineros del carbón contra las políticas económicas del Gobierno de Margaret Thatcher.