David Peace
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
In 1958, Manchester United was flying high: the best-known soccer team in the world and reigning English champions, the team was led by a bright young group of star players nicknamed the "Busby Babes" after their charismatic manager Matt Busby. But on a snowy afternoon that February, a plane carrying the team back from a European Cup match crashed on takeoff in Munich, killing 23 people--including eight Manchester United players and three team officials....
Author
Series
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
On January 26, 1948, a man identifying himself as a public health official arrives at a bank in Tokyo. He explains that there has been an outbreak of dysentery in the neighborhood, and he has been assigned by Occupation authorities to treat everyone who might have been exposed to the disease. 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...
Author
Publisher
Melville House
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A New York Times Editors' Choice
"[T]he stuff of great literature." —The New York Times | "Red or Dead is a winner." —The Washington Post
The place where the swinging sixties started – Liverpool, England, birthplace of the Beatles – wasn’t so swinging. Amid industrial blight and a bad economy, the port town’s shipping industry was going bust and...
"[T]he stuff of great literature." —The New York Times | "Red or Dead is a winner." —The Washington Post
The place where the swinging sixties started – Liverpool, England, birthplace of the Beatles – wasn’t so swinging. Amid industrial blight and a bad economy, the port town’s shipping industry was going bust and...
4) Tokyo redux
Author
Series
Tokyo trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"From the author of the highly acclaimed Tokyo Year Zero and Occupied City--an elecrifying, mesmerizing new novel about a high-profile crime that occurrs in Tokyo during the occupation and goes cold, haunting the lives of both American and Japanese investigators for the next forty years. Tokyo, July 1949: the president of the Japanese National Railways goes missing just a day after announcing 30,000 layoffs. In the midst of the U.S. occupation, against...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A Knopf
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Haunting and evocative, brutal and surreal, these twelve connected tales evoke the life of the Japanese writer Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (1892-1927), whose short story "In the Grove" served as an inspiration for Akira Kurosawa's famous film Rashōmon, and whose narrative use of multiple perspectives and different versions of a single event influenced generations of storytellers. Writing out of his own obsession with Akutagawa, David Peace delves into the...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
"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 his own, works tirelessly to catch him. But their investigations turn grisly as they each engage in affairs with the women...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Previously successful manager Brian Clough takes over England's top football club Leeds United. His abrasive approach and his clear dislike of the players' dirty style of play make it certain there is going to be friction. Glimpses of his earlier career help explain both his hostility to previous manager Don Revie and how much he is missing his usual right-hand man, Peter Taylor, who decided to loyally stay with Brighton & Hove Albion.
11) Red Riding
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
These three separate but interrelated films move unflinchingly through a turbulent and tragic decade in the West Riding region of Yorkshire, England. Serial murders, child abductions and rampant police corruption abound -- no one escapes undamaged.
12) Red riding: 1983
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
"When a little girl is kidnapped, Detective Maurice Jobson is disturbed by similarities between this case and one he investigated in the 1970's, and for which apparently an innocent man may have been sent to jail.
13) Red riding: 1980
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Veteran police officer, Peter Hunter, is called in to tackle the baffling mystery of the Yorkshire Ripper that has confounded the local law enforcement for years. Hunter soon finds that the only thing more challenging than catching the Ripper is getting his fellow officers to investigate the corruption he believes is at the heart of the case.