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David PeaceDavid Peace is a British author born in Ossett, West Yorkshire in 1967. His works include the "Red-Riding Quartet" (set against a backdrop of the Yorkshire Ripper murders, and GB84, set against the UK miners' strike (1984-1985). He now lives in Tokyo, Japan, with his family. The Red-Riding Quartet features several recurring characters such as Eddie Dunford, George Oldman, Jack Whitehead and BJ, the rent boy. Works "Nineteen Seventy Four" - The first novel in the quartet deals with the murder and mutilation of several missing young girls. Crime journalist Eddie Dunford discovers what he believes is a link between the murders and corruption within the West Yorkshire Police... "Nineteen Seventy Seven" - Three years after the chilling end of Nineteen Seventy Four, the continuing murder of prostitutes is making the headlines. Two characters from the previous novel inter-twine their stories, as Jack Whitehead of the Yorkshire Post, and Policeman Bob Fraser get involved in something that threatens their very existence. "Nineteen Eighty" - With the Ripper seemingly unstoppable, the Home Office bring in a specially set-up team to bring him to justice. However as Peter Hunter heads up the team, he starts to find out things he wishes he hadn't. "Nineteen Eighty Three" - An astonishing story that intertwines three narratives to conclude and tie-up most of the loose ends from the previous three novels. Nineteen Eighty-Three features three characters the reader has met before: BJ, the rent boy from Nineteen Seventy-Seven and Nineteen Eighty, John Piggott, the solicitor of PC Bob Fraser in Nineteen Seventy-Seven, and Maurice Jobson, the corrupt senior policeman who appeared in the previous novels. BJs chapters start at the end of the first novel and the shooting in the Strafford pub, and continue right up to the end of the fourth book. John Piggotts narrative is the only one of the three that stays contemporary, in his dealing with the appeal of Michael Myshkin, the convicted child-killer from Nineteen Seventy-Four. The third element of the story featuring The Owl, Maurice Jobson, go right back to 1969 and the first schoolgirl disappearance alluded to in Nineteen Seventy-Four. Although this may sound confusing it is written with consummate skill, and this novel is essential reading for anyone who has read the previous books in the Red-Riding Quartet. "GB84"
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