Nineteen Eighty Three (Five Star)

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.From the Trade Paperback edition.

First sentence: 'No more dead dogs and slashed swans for us,' whispered Dick Alderman, like this was good news - It wasn't.

Year

2004

Language

English

Publisher

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Editions

3

ISBN

9780307741677

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