Nineteen eighty three

Book info: Nineteen eighty three (Hardcover, 432 pages – Quercus, 2009) – Quercus, 2009. Language: Eng.

Condition: Like New

Three men, three months of hell.May 1983. John Pigott, an overweight lawyer as noble in his intentions as he is a slave to his desires, finds that the man convicted for Clare Kemplay's murder might just be innocent – and that all the people who could answer his questions are dead.June 1977. BJ, the rent boy from Nineteen Seventy Four, is on the run, his life in danger for what he knows, plagued by the horrors he has witnessed. Soon he must confront the possibility that the man purporting to be his saviour is the devil himself.December 1974. Maurice Jobson, the senior policeman known as “The Owl,” is increasingly sucked into a morass of corruption where murder and cruelty become the only tools for survival. His actions will set the whole infernal engine in motion.In Nineteen Eighty Three, David Peace's hugely influential Red Riding Quartet, one of the finest series in contemporary British crime writing, is brought to a close with a finale more shocking and intense than anything before.