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About David Peace
See more books from this AuthorAll told, six women are murdered, four assaulted—including Bob Fraser’s girlfriend, Janice Ryan, who is pregnant with his child and for whom he pimps, and Jack Whitehead’s prosty, Ka Su Peng (assaulted only).
| Read Full Review of Nineteen Eighty Three (Red-Ri...Peace’s Yorkshire Ripper, who disembodies prostitutes with a screwdriver, is taken from real life (as in Ellroy’s The Black Dahlia and as with nearly all of Peace’s crimes), and family members of the dead have to live with Peace’s fear-reminding, gore-riddled pages.
| Read Full Review of Nineteen Eighty Three (Red-Ri...Fourth and last in this British author's experimental Red Riding Quartet crime epic: a raw and furious wade through the Valley of Death that understates its big sweet hell of pages chock-a-block with violated corpses and red rain running with blood.
May 20 2010 | Read Full Review of Nineteen Eighty Three (Red-Ri...An aggregated and normalized score based on 12 user ratings from iDreamBooks & iTunes