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Автор Дэвид Пис
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“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.
David Peace
Part 1. Bodies
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Part 2. Police & thieves
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Part 3. God save the queen
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Part 4. What’s my name?
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Part 5. The damned
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
David Peace
David Peace
1977
The second book in the Red Riding Quartet series, 2001
This book is dedicated to the victims of the crimes attributed to the Yorkshire Ripper, and their families.
This book is also dedicated to the men and women who tried to stop those crimes.
However, this book remains a work of fiction.
Beg Again
Tuesday 24 December 1974:
Down the Strafford stairs and out the door, blue lights on the black sky, sirens on the wind.
Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck.
Running, fucked forever – the takings of the till, the pickings of their bloody pockets.
Fuck, fuck, fuck.
Should have finished what he started; the coppers still breathing, the barmaid and the old cunt. Should have done it right, should have done the bloody lot.
Fuck, fuck.
The last coach west to Manchester and Preston, last exit, last chance to dance.
Fucked.
Part 1. Bodies
Radio Leeds
Sunday 29th May 1977
Chapter 1
Leeds.
Sunday 29 May 1977.
It’s happening again:
Burning unmarked rubber through another hot dawn to another ancient park with her secret dead, from Potter’s Field to Soldier’s Field, parks giving up their ghosts, it’s happening all over again.
Sunday morning, windows open, and
