Nineteen seventy-four

Alternate Titles

• 1974

Description

The first installment of David Peace's electrifying Red Riding Quartet vividly brings to life a gritty, dangerous working class city tormented by a series of brutal murders. Nineteen Seventy-Four follows Eddie Dunford, the newly minted crime correspondent for the Yorkshire Post. His first story is about Clare Kemplay, a young girl recently found brutally murdered. While the police department and other crime reporters at the newspaper believe it's an isolated incident, Eddie finds a pattern between Clare's disappearance and those of other girls from a few years earlier. Despite his better judgment, and against the advice of others, he starts to dig deep. What he finds is a nightmare of corruption, violence, blackmail, and obsession that ultimately leads to a shocking, explosive conclusion.

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Genres

• Fiction

Other Editions

• Nineteen seventy-fourSerpent's Tail1999-01-01
• Nineteen seventy-fourVintage Crime/Black Lizard2009
• Nineteen Seventy-foureBookKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group2010-01-01