Nineteen Seventy Seven

Author : David Peace
Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2010-03-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307741653

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Nineteen Seventy-seven by David Peace Pdf

David Peace's acclaimed Red Riding Quartet continues with this exhilarating follow-up to Nineteen Seventy-Four. It's summer in Leeds and the city is anxiously awaiting the Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth's reign. Detective Bob Fraser and Jack Whitehead, a reporter at the Post, however, have other things on their minds-mainly the fact that someone is murdering prostitutes. The killer is quickly dubbed the “Yorkshire Ripper” and each man, on their own, works tirelessly to catch him. But their investigations turn grisly as they each engage in affairs with the prostitutes they are supposedly protecting. As the summer progresses, the killings accelerate and it seems as if Fraser and Whitehead are the only men who suspect or care that there may be more than one killer at large.

Author : Library of Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1640 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
ISBN : WISC:89122457971

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Library of Congress Subject Headings by Library of Congress Pdf

Author : Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1924 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
ISBN : UOM:39015079817071

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Library of Congress Subject Headings by Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office Pdf

Author : Simon Pick
Publisher : Simon Pick
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781527273252

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Running Mate by Simon Pick Pdf

Amendment one hundred and twenty two makes it legal to kill the president of the United States - corporate sponsorship makes it highly profitable. Washington DC, 2150. Deep within the White House basement Archer powers up today’s Mayfly - a short-lived sentient humanoid bodyguard designed to protect the President from the electorate. Only Archer seems to care that the Mayfly will likely fail in her duty, just like every other Mayfly this month - after all there are plenty more death row inmates eager to stand for election. Frustrated and powerless, Archer’s desire to increase the Mayflies’ effectiveness - by extending their 48 hour life expectancy - will drive him to take ever greater risks, bringing him into conflict with powerful vested interests and creating dangerous enemies. Set in a future world of next-generation technology, connected devices, augmented reality and sentient machines, Running Mate is a fast-paced, darkly humorous blend of Black-Mirror, WestWorld and The West Wing. From the mind of a long-time video game developer and senior software engineer, the future laid out here is terrifyingly plausible and uncomfortably familiar.

Author : David Peace
Publisher : Profile Books
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781847655004

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Red Riding Nineteen Eighty by David Peace Pdf

Red Riding Nineteen Eighty is set against an evolving backdrop of power, corruption and lies. The nightmare continues during the winter of 1980 when the Ripper murders his thirteenth victim and the whole of Yorkshire is terrorised. Assistant Chief Constable Hunter struggles to solve the hellish crimes and bring an end to the horror, but is drawn ever deeper into a world of bent coppers and sleaze. After his house is burned down, his wife is threatened and his colleagues turn against him, Hunter's quest becomes personal as he has nothing left to lose. Nineteen Eighty is a compelling battle between two desperate men, each determined to destroy the other. This third volume of the Red Riding Quartet displays Peace's unique voice which places him as one of the UK's finest crime writers.

Author : David Peace
Publisher : Profile Books
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781847655011

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Red Riding Nineteen Eighty Three by David Peace Pdf

Nineteen Eighty Three's three intertwining storylines see the Quartet's central themes of corruption and the perversion of justice come to a head as BJ, the rent boy from Nineteen Seventy Four, the lawyer Big John Piggott - who's as near as you get to a hero in Peace's world - and Maurice Jobson, the senior cop whose career of corruption and brutality has set all this in motion, find themselves on a collision course that can only end in a terrible vengeance. Nineteen Eighty Three is an epic tale which concluded an extraordinary body of work confirming Peace as the most innovative and remarkable new British crime writer to have emerged for years.

Author : David Peace
Publisher : Profile Books
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781847654991

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Red Riding Nineteen Seventy Seven by David Peace Pdf

If you thought fiction couldn't get darker than David Peace's extraordinary debut, Nineteen Seventy Four, then think again. Nineteen Seventy Seven, the second instalment of the Red Riding Quartet, is one long nightmare. Its heroes - the half decent copper Bob Fraser and the burnt-out hack Jack Whitehead - would be considered villains in most people's books. Fraser and Whitehead have one thing in common though, they're both desperate men dangerously in love with Chapeltown prostitutes. And as the summer moves remorselessly towards the bonfires of Jubilee Night, the killings accelerate and it seems as if Fraser and Whitehead are the only men who suspect or care that there may be more than one killer at large. Out of the horror of true crime, David Peace has fashioned a work of terrible beauty. Like James Ellroy before him, David Peace tells us the true and fearsome secret history of our times.

Author : David Peace
Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2009-09-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307455123

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Nineteen Eighty by David Peace Pdf

Continuing the narrative begun with Nineteen Seventy-Four and Nineteen Seventy-Seven, this electrifying third installment of David Peace’s Red Riding Quartet demonstrates a skill that goes above and beyond the limits of the genre. While Yorkshire is terrorized by the Ripper, the corrupt police continue to prosper. To give the case some new life, Peter Hunter, a “clean” cop from nearby Manchester, is brought in to offer a fresh perspective. As he goes about setting up a new case under the radar, he suffers the same fate as those who previously attempted to get in the way of the Ripper: his house is burned down, his wife threatened. But he soldiers on. And as he comes face to face with unthinkable evil, Hunter struggles to maintain his reputation, his sanity, and his life.

Author : New York (State)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1702 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Session laws
ISBN : NYPL:33433057658126

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Laws of the State of New York by New York (State) Pdf

Author : Ibrahim Abed,Paula Casey-Vine,Abdullah Al Jabali
Publisher : Trident Press Ltd
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1900724030

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Chronicle of Progress by Ibrahim Abed,Paula Casey-Vine,Abdullah Al Jabali Pdf

Author : Eric Chevillard
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2024-01-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780300274479

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Museum Visits by Eric Chevillard Pdf

The daring, mischievous micro-essays of award-winning French humorist Éric Chevillard, published in English for the first time Éric Chevillard is one of France’s leading stylists and thinkers, an endlessly inventive observer of the everyday whose erudition and imagination honor the legacy of Swift and Voltaire—with some good-natured postmodern twists. This ensemble of comic miniatures compiles reflections on chairs, stairs, stones, goldfish, objects found, strangers observed, scenarios imagined, reasonable premises taken to absurd conclusions, and vice versa. The author erects a mental museum for his favorite artworks, only to find it swarming with tourists. He attends a harpsichord recital and lets his passions flare. He happens upon a piece of paper and imagines its sordid back story. He wonders if Hegel’s cap, on display in Stuttgart, is really worth the trip. Throughout, Chevillard’s powers of observation chime with his verbal acrobatics. His gaze—initially superficial, then deeply attentive, then practically sociopathic—manages time and again to defamiliarize the familiar with a coherent and charismatic charm. Daniel Levin Becker’s translation deftly renders the marvels of the original, and a foreword by Daniel Medin offers rich contextual commentary, making a vital wing of French literature and humor newly accessible in English.

Author : Indiana
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1756 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Law
ISBN : STANFORD:36105064232627

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West's Annotated Indiana Code by Indiana Pdf

Author : David Peace
Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2010-03-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307741660

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Nineteen Eighty by David Peace Pdf

Continuing the narrative begun with Nineteen Seventy-Four and Nineteen Seventy-Seven, this electrifying third installment of David Peace’s Red Riding Quartet demonstrates a skill that goes above and beyond the limits of the genre. While Yorkshire is terrorized by the Ripper, the corrupt police continue to prosper. To give the case some new life, Peter Hunter, a “clean” cop from nearby Manchester, is brought in to offer a fresh perspective. As he goes about setting up a new case under the radar, he suffers the same fate as those who previously attempted to get in the way of the Ripper: his house is burned down, his wife threatened. But he soldiers on. And as he comes face to face with unthinkable evil, Hunter struggles to maintain his reputation, his sanity, and his life.

Author : Katy Shaw
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2011-05-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443831178

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Analysing David Peace by Katy Shaw Pdf

Analysing David Peace provides an exciting, challenging and accessible critical introduction to the work of contemporary British novelist David Peace. Through a detailed analysis of his writings, as well as the socio-cultural contexts of their production and dissemination, the collection explores Peace’s attempts to capture the sensibilities of late twentieth century society and contributes to an ongoing debate in the media about his representations. Peace is an emerging author who is widely read and taught and whose novels are increasingly celebrated. In the past decade Peace has won the James Tait Black Memorial Award and was named as one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists. The four novels of his Red Riding Quartet interrogate British society of the 1970s/80s through the prism of the hunt for the serial killer dubbed the Yorkshire Ripper. GB84 examines the machinations of the 1984–5 UK miners’ strike, while The Damned United explores relationships between masculinity and football through the doomed reign of manager Brian Clough at British football club Leeds United in 1974. In the Tokyo Trilogy, Peace develops an interest in occupation and the occult, interrogating Japan’s post-war legacy of defeat and its resonance to our contemporary world. This collection offers an essential guide to the work of David Peace, as well as a unique insight into his canon to date.

Author : Sarah Cradit
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1729538207

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1970 by Sarah Cradit Pdf

Seven Siblings. Seven Years. Seven Spellbinding Novels.1970. New Orleans. The seven Deschanel siblings live with their long-suffering mother in an historic Garden District mansion. Each of them unique. Each of them born with a gift. In some cases, a gift they wish they could give back.When August Deschanel died, he left his wife, Irish Colleen, with more than seven children to raise. She inherited a job she was never prepared for: bringing up his heirs in a world she doesn't understand. She'd never seen true magic, not before marrying into the most prominent-and mysterious-family in New Orleans. Now, she can't escape it.Irish Colleen knows a terrible secret. Her youngest, a prophet, has seen a future that is unavoidable: the Deschanels will not leave 1970 without losing one of the seven. She knows only that it will happen, but not when, how... or to whom.Charles, the playboy heir apparent. Augustus, the family fixer. Colleen, the unfailing pragmatist. Madeline, the bleeding heart. Evangeline, the genius. Maureen, the dreamer. Elizabeth, the tortured one.One of her children must die, and Irish Colleen can do nothing to stop it.