This is the first part of the “Red Riding Quartet”. It”s winter, 1974, and Ed Dunford’s the crime correspondent of the “Evening Post”. He didn’t know that this Christmas was going to be a season in hell. A dead little girl with a swan’s wings stitched to her back

Один из ведущих мастеров британского нуара Дэвид Пис признает, что его интерес к криминальной беллетристике был вызван зловещими событиями, происходившими в его родном Йоркшире — с 1975 до 1981 г. местное население жило в страхе перед неуловимым серийным убийцей — Йоркширским Потрошителем. Именно эти события послужили поводом для создания тетралогии «Йоркширский квартет», или «Красный райдинг» (райдинг — единица административно-территориального деления графства Йоркшир), принесшей Пису всемирную славу. «1974» — первый том тетралогии «Йоркширский квартет». 1974 год. Ирландская республиканская армия совершает серию взрывов в Лондоне. Иэн Болл предпринимает неудачную попытку похищения принцессы Анны. Ультраправые из «Национального фронта» проходят маршем через Уэст-Энд. В моде песни группы «Бэй Сити Роллерз». На экраны выходят девятый фильм бондианы «Человек с золотым пистолетом» с Роджером Муром и «Убийство в Восточном экспрессе» по роману Агаты Кристи. Графство Йоркшир, Англия. Корреспондент криминальной хроники газеты «Йоркшир пост» Эдвард Данфорд получает задание написать о расследовании таинственного исчезновения десятилетней девочки. Когда ее находят зверски убитой, Данфорд предпринимает собственное расследование зловещих преступлений, произошедших в Йоркшире. Чем больше вопросов он задает, тем глубже погружается в кошмарные тайны человеческих извращений и пороков, которые простираются до высших эшелонов власти и уходят в самое «сердце тьмы» английской глубинки

“Peace’s policemen rape prostitutes they are meant to be protecting, torture suspects they know cannot be guilty and reap the profits of organized vice. Peace’s powerful novel exposes a side of life which most of us would prefer to ignore.” – Daily Mail “A writer of immense talent and power… If northern noir is the crime fashion of the moment, Peace is its most brilliant designer.” – The Times (London) “Peace has found his own voice-full of dazzling, intense poetry and visceral violence.” – Uncut “With a human landscape that is violent and unrelentingly bleak, Peace’s fiction is two or three shades the other side of noir.” – New Statesman “Nineteen Seventy-Seven smacks of the stinking corruption of a brutal police force and a formidable sense of time and place.” Second in the "Red Riding Quartet", this tale is set in Jubilee year. Its heroes, the half-decent copper Bof Fraser and the burnt-out hack Jack Whitehead are the only two who suspect that there is more than one killer at large among the Chapeltown whores

1977 год. Год «двух семерок». Британия готовится к серебряному юбилею – 25-летию коронации Елизаветы II. В моде панк-рок – «Клэш» и «Секс Пистолз». Авиакомпания «Бритиш Эруэйз» совершает регулярные полеты Лондон-Нью-Йорк на сверхзвуковых «Конкордах». Опубликован роман Джона Ле Каре «Почетный школьник». Йоркширский Потрошитель собирает кровавую жатву. В графстве Йоркшир убивают проституток. Сержант полиции Боб Фрейзер и журналист Джек Уайтхед пытаются во что бы то ни стало найти и остановить серийного убийцу. Их связывает одно: и полицейский и журналист влюблены в представительниц древнейшей профессии из йоркширского Чапелтауна. По мере того как убийства множатся, становится очевидным: Фрейзер и Уайтхед – единственные, кто подозревает, что чапелтаунский убийца действует не и одиночку

“David Peace is the future of crime fiction… A fantastic talent.” – Ian Rankin “[David Peace is] transforming the genre with passion and style.” – George Pelecanos “Peace has single-handedly established the genre of Yorkshire Noir, and mightily satisfying it is.” – Yorkshire Post “Peace is a manic James Joyce of the crime novel… invoking the horror of grim lives, grim crimes, and grim times.” – Sleazenation “A tour de force of crime fiction which confirms David Peace’s reputation as one of the most important names in contemporary crime literature.” – Crime Time “A compelling and devastating body of work that pushes Peace to the forefront of British writing.” – Time Out “[Peace] exposes a side of life which most of us would prefer to ignore.” – Daily Mail “A writer of immense talent and power… If northern noir is the crime fashion of the moment, Peace is its most brilliant designer.” – The Times (London) “Peace has found his own voice-full of dazzling, intense poetry and visceral violence.” – Uncut Third in the "Red Riding Quartet", this tale is set in 1980, when the Yorkshire Ripper murders his 13th victim. Assistant Chief Constable Hunter is drawn into a world of corruption and sleaze. When his house is burned down and his wife threatened, his quest becomes personal

“Peace is a manic James Joyce of the crime novel… invoking the horror of grim lives, grim crimes, and grim times.” – Sleazenation “[Peace] exposes a side of life which most of us would prefer to ignore.” – Daily Mail “David Peace is the future of crime fiction… A fantastic talent.” – Ian Rankin “British crime fiction’s most exciting new voice in decades.” – GQ “[David Peace is] transforming the genre with passion and style.” – George Pelecanos “Peace has single-handedly established the genre of Yorkshire Noir, and mightily satisfying it is.” – Yorkshire Post “A compelling and devastating body of work that pushes Peace to the forefront of British writing.” – Time Out London “A writer of immense talent and power… If northern noir is the crime fashion of the moment, Peace is its most brilliant designer.” – The Times (London) “Peace has found his own voice-full of dazzling, intense poetry and visceral violence.” – Uncut “A tour de force of crime fiction which confirms David Peace’s reputation as one of the most important names in contemporary crime literature.” – Crime Time The intertwining storylines see the "Red Riding Quartet's" central themes of corruption and the perversion of justice come to a head as BJ the rent boy, lawyer Big John Piggott, and cop Maurice Oldfield, find themselves on a collision course that can only end in terrible vengeance

Great Britain. 1984. The miners' strike. The government against the people. On initial publication, twenty years on from the strike, David Peace's bravura novel "GB84" was hugely acclaimed. In a bloody and dramatic fictional portrait of the year that was to leave an indelible mark on the nation's consciousness, Peace dares to engage with the Britain's social and political past, bringing it shockingly and brilliantly to life

On January 26, 1948, a man posing as a public health official arrives at a bank in Tokyo. He explains that he’s there to treat everyone who might have been exposed to a recent outbreak of dysentery. Soon after drinking the medicine he administers, twelve employees are dead, four are unconscious, and the “official” has fled. Twelve voices tell the story of the murder from different perspectives including a journalist, a gangster-turned-businessman, an “occult detective,” and a well-known painter. Each voice enlarges and deepens the portrait of a city and a people making their way out of a war-induced hell. Told with David Peace’s brilliantly idiosyncratic and mesmerizing voice, Occupied City is a stunningly audacious work from a singular writer

In 1959, Liverpool Football Club were in the Second Division. Liverpool Football Club had never won the FA Cup. Fifteen seasons later, Liverpool Football Club had won three League titles, two FA Cups and the UEFA Cup. Liverpool Football Club had become the most consistently successful team in England. And the most passionately supported club. Their manager was revered as a god.Destined for immortality. Their manager was Bill Shankly. His job was his life. His life was football. His football a form of socialism. Bill Shankly inspired people. Bill Shankly transformed people. The players and the supporters.His legacy would reveberate through the ages. In 1974, Liverpool Football Club and Bill Shankly stood on the verge of even greater success. In England and in Europe. But in 1974, Bill Shankly shocked Liverpool and football. Bill Shankly resigned. Bill Shankly retired. Red or Dead is the story of the rise of Liverpool Football Club and Bill Shankly. And the story of the retirement of Bill Shankly. Of one man and his work. And of the man after that work. A man in two halves. Home and away. Red or dead

Overachieving and eccentric football manager Brian Clough was on his way to take over at the country's most successful, and most reviled football club: Leeds United, home to a generation of fiercely competitive but ageing players. The battle he'd face there would make or break the club — or him. David Peace's extraordinarily inventive novel tells the story of a world characterised by fear of failure and hunger for success set in the bleak heart of the 1970s

It's August 1946—one year after the Japanese surrender — and women are turning up dead all over Tokyo. Detective Minami of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police — irreverent, angry, despairing — goes on the hunt for a killer known as the Japanese Bluebeard — a decorated former Imperial soldier who raped and murdered at least ten women amidst the turmoil of post-war Tokyo. As he undertakes the case, Minami is haunted by his own memories of atrocities that he can no longer explain or forgive. Unblinking in its vision of a nation in a chaotic, hellish period in its history, Tokyo Year Zero is a darkly lyrical and stunningly original crime novel