Red Riding Nineteen Eighty Three (Red Riding Quartet Book 4)

BJ, the rent boy from , re-appears as he goes on the run with Clare Morrison after the shoot-out at the Strafford Arms. A huge cover-up which dominated and it This is the final book in the Red Riding Quartet and I was anticipating plenty of tying up of loose ends and perhaps a happy ending of sorts. A huge cover-up which dominated and its significance is now finally explained. Remember Clare from the previous book? A lawyer, Big John Piggott, agrees to take on the case of Michael Myshkin, convicted and imprisoned over an apparent confession of murdering Clare Kemplay in He soon uncovers procedural errors committed by the official police lawyer assigned to Myshkin and soon also realises that others want him to step away and leave Myshkin to his fate in prison forever.

Chief Superintendent Maurice Jobson, a senior cop, who has risen through the ranks by benefitting from the mire of corruption is haunted by the death of the medium, Mandy Wymer, from and appears sickened by the extent of it all. Badger, Dragon and the Wolf for example. The all hide behind these aliases whilst destroying lives all around them. I was glad that a writer had the confidence to write with such a unique voice and style and could find a publisher who would publish him.

The saddest two words in the Quartet and exposes how evil flourishes and continues. I look forward to re-reading the Red Riding Quartet again in the future. Jul 01, Phil rated it it was amazing. David Peace's "Red Riding Quartet", of which this is the final volume, is one of the most amazing and powerful works of English literature of the 21st century so far.

It is a cycle of novels - literally, in that it continually explicates and rounds on itself - based on the very real horror of child abduction and murder in the wake of the Moors Murders of the s and the Yorkshire Ripper's reign of terror in the 70s. Peace is local to West Yorkshire and knows in his bones the places, the people David Peace's "Red Riding Quartet", of which this is the final volume, is one of the most amazing and powerful works of English literature of the 21st century so far.

Peace is local to West Yorkshire and knows in his bones the places, the people, and the fear generated by these horrible crimes. He also knows a deal about the corruption of the West Yorkshire Police, their brutality at the period, and the monumental inefficiency of their investigation of the Ripper murders What makes these novels so exceptional, however, is that, unlike any other 'crime genre' work I've read, they are not remotely concerned with psychology - of criminals or of police - or with police procedure other than to emphasise the abuses of it , or with traditional 'whodunnit' tension though there is an element of this: I'm not a native of West Yorkshire the 'Red Riding' of the overall title , but I live here now and can attest to the author's vivid evocation of place.

And even though in a discussion I had with David Peace a little while ago he claimed to have made up or guessed at some of the characters, motivations and incidents, a friend of mine who was a local police officer during the period concerned has confirmed to me the extraordinary accuracy of Peace's knowledge of the force as it was. In brief, this is a work of very great genius, and I cannot recommend it too highly.

May 29, Craig rated it liked it. None of the Red Riding quartet stand well on their own - they can only really be read as a collected work. The overall theme of the enormous cost in human lives and immense suffering of hypocrisy and corruption is interesting and well developed. The books use a fascinating device of shifting point of view from one novel to the next, both in terms of character and time, to develop that theme and gradually fill in the broader story.

For instance, a character seen only as an antagonist in beco None of the Red Riding quartet stand well on their own - they can only really be read as a collected work. For instance, a character seen only as an antagonist in becomes the central character from whose point of view the story is told in and then recurs in the latter two books as an important and sympathetic character. A character referred to only in a few passages of is the dominate character driving all of The prose, in an apparent effort to be stylistic, often comes off as pretentious, repetitive, and just plain over-stuffed.

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Many characters are left only partially explored, the exact details of what happened to them and why is almost always left hazy and ambiguous, though the point may be that the exact details don't matter so long as we can link their fate back to the overarching theme of the cost of corruption. The series as a whole is also just depressing - in tone and in theme with one small but significant exception partway through the final book, though the ending reverts to form.

The last of the Red Riding Quartet, and probably the least satisfying. Despite being set in eighty-three, much of the plot transpires in the sixties and seventies, jumping back and forward like a hyperactive child, weaving through the plots of the previous books and recontextualising them. It's a gruelling, exhausting read, and while it just about makes a new plot out of tying up previous loose ends, the ride is by now familiar and strained.

The characters are ruined and broken by the end, as yo The last of the Red Riding Quartet, and probably the least satisfying. The characters are ruined and broken by the end, as you'd expect from reading the previous books, but it's all less satisfying and I found aspects, such as the breaking of solicitor John Piggott, manufactured and flawed. As that character takes his final actions, I read on with disbelief, not because of what he was doing, but because I just didn't find his choices credible from the way he had presented himself throughout the book.

As the final part of the quartet, this is labored and unsatisfying, challenging for the wrong reasons. I finished it out of necessity, having travelled so far through the quartet that I wasn't prepared to quit, rather than because it gripped me, as the previous books did. A cracking quartet of novels, but I feel a little let down by the ending to the series. It employs several clever tools to move the story along; 3 strands with 3 characters, each strand written using a different narritive style Jobson - 1st Person, Piggott 2nd Person, BJ 3rd Person , and the way that one strand brings the story together; one set before the first novel pre , one tells the unseen tales from the end of through to the final book, and one based in the "present".

These mix A cracking quartet of novels, but I feel a little let down by the ending to the series. These mixed writing styles and timelines might ruin the story in the hands of a lesser writer, but Peace almost manages to pull it off. Howver, the last chapters and conclusion I found to be confusing, and left me with too many questions left unanswered Perhaps the series warrents re-reading, more pointers and clues may be spotted having come to the ending. Harrowing stuff throughout the series, and the best crime novels I have ever read Sep 02, Limecat rated it it was amazing.

This finishes the quartet. I don't normally read this sort of stuff - it is uber violent and unrelentingly brutal. I wouldn't recommend it to my mother, let's put it that way. But there's something compelling about this writer, and no matter how much I winced, I couldn't put the books down. And I guess it's also the nostalgia factor - this takes people of a certain age right back to the end of the Callaghan years to the start of the Thatcher years, when the 's bled into the horrible heartless This finishes the quartet.

And I guess it's also the nostalgia factor - this takes people of a certain age right back to the end of the Callaghan years to the start of the Thatcher years, when the 's bled into the horrible heartlessness of the 80's. A decade I am happy to forget. These aren't fun to read, and if you can't cope with swearing then don't even bother. But his prose style is something else. I'm not really sure why it's taken me so long to finish this book off. It was still as pacy and exciting as the first three novels in the Red Riding Quartet. Perhaps I was reluctant to end this roller coaster journey and was trying to prolong the enjoyment.

I'm left wondering what to read next, as little will compare to this Mar 30, Michael rated it it was amazing Shelves: Well I am at the end of the darkest series of books i have read for a long time. The loose ends from the earlier books are tied up and you are quite glad to be leaving Peaces Yorkshire. This is very well written and he gets into the minds of his characters very well.

Based on real events as well so you feel the power of the story telling,and it is very gripping. Apr 21, Irmak Ertuna-howison rated it liked it. Aug 08, Marcus Wilson rated it it was amazing. David Peace brings his Red Riding quartet to a devastating conclusion with this novel. The world he writes about is frightening, and his writing style which takes some getting used to reflects it, coming across like the rantings of desperate and frightened people being driven by the insanity and corruption of the entire story.

A landmark series of novels which are even more disturbing in light of the Jimmy Saville revelations, I don't know if the author was aware of these at the time he was writ David Peace brings his Red Riding quartet to a devastating conclusion with this novel.

A landmark series of novels which are even more disturbing in light of the Jimmy Saville revelations, I don't know if the author was aware of these at the time he was writing, but they certainly cast a long shadow over proceedings for me. This is Yorkshire where they do what they want. Aug 30, Don Dealga rated it it was amazing. Have I finished the quartet?

What a literary ride through the semi-imagined semi real history of Yorkshire circa s80s. But not a pleasant happy little read. Be prepared for lots of dark grim stuff. Violence, dirt, despair and disappointment.

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Oct 25, Mark rated it it was amazing. One hell of a series. Jan 11, Klara rated it liked it. L'unico commento che mi viene. Apr 16, Andrew rated it really liked it. Like Nineteen Seventy-Seven , this fourth and final v "Hello from back seat hard on last bus home, one that got away and live to tell the tale Like Nineteen Seventy-Seven , this fourth and final volume employs multiple protagonists, herein presented in three different voices: While low-rent solicitor John Piggott traces the breadcrumbs to a missing girl the events of Nineteen Seventy-Four now repeating themselves , the memories of corrupt copper Maurice Jobson and two-bit hustler BJ provide fresh perspective on events from the distant and near past of Peace's narrative.

Perhaps sensing that his sprawling, often opaque series was going to close without much in the way of resolution, Peace uses the book to answer a lot of lingering questions about the labyrinthine plot. However, much still remains shrouded, or at best only implied. The series practically begs for a The Wire -style organizational chart of relationships and crimes. At this point, readers who have stuck with Peace and his often bewildering story likely won't mind. The details of the plot, after all, are somewhat beside the point here; the Red Riding quartet is first and foremost a mood piece, and a devastating one at that.

It is more than the sum of its parts, a work of unremitting bleakness, accruing sentence by sentence into a literary howl for the fallen nature of our world. A tad to big for its britches at times? Yes, especially when Peace wanders so far into modernist stylings that he gets repetitious and has trouble finding his way back to the damn point. However, despite all that, the Red Riding quartet is potent storytelling that pushes ruthlessly at the boundaries of the crime thriler genre. I'd be a liar if I said that, taken as a whole, these books haven't haunted me like few others I've read in recent years.

It instead follows another missing child case, similar to the ones detailed in the first novel. Unlike all of the previous novels, though, this one takes us back to before the events of the first book so that we finally get a complete picture of the entire series. In , we once again have multiple perspectives. This time it's from Det. Maurice Jobson, the Chief Superintendent of the Yorkshire police force and one of the most corrupt coppers that we've seen to date; John Piggot, some random lawyer who is quite nice sincerely seems to care, which is a nice change; and BJ, the street thug, local guy that we've seen since While I appreciated getting the full picture on the events leading up to and the course of everything that has happened through the series until now, I think Peace's writing has gone down in quality or he might not have as much talent in distinguishing between multiple characters.

I thought he did quite well in between Det. Bob Fraser and Jack Whitehead, but here Peace uses first, second and third person to distinguish between Jobson, Piggot and BJ; his way of doing it might have been his attempt at those different points of view, but it comes across more as lazy writing: Peace doesn't have the writing chops to make each character's voice different and so turns to writing them with different points of view.

I don't have any love for second-person, because I think it's trite and sounds terrible, so I wasn't a fan. Peace's tackling of BJ was not any better and made BJ seem like an idiot or some sort of Neanderthal e. His actual speech is normal, so I don't know what's up with the point of view. Once again, the book is very film noir-esque and the repetition is still there, although by this time it's getting quite irritating. I ended up skimming over some parts because I could see where it was going. That's never a fun thing to do in a novel. Nineteen Eighty Three is the final book in the Red Riding Quartet and there's only one word to describe it.

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David Peace is a phenomenal writer. His writing style is quick, slick and draws you in. I find myself sucked into the hazy world of corrupt cops, earnest lawyers and journalists fighting for the truth. The characters he writes are all flawed, there are no Hollywood heroes here, which makes more for the interesting read.

The narrative is led by three individuals, policeman Maurice J Nineteen Eighty Three is the final book in the Red Riding Quartet and there's only one word to describe it. All three of them are tangled up in the web of conspiracy and cover ups around the disappearances of young girls in the Yorkshire area. Jobson is the lead investigator, but also the reluctant heir of Bill 'Badger' Molloy's scheme to get rich quick. Pigott is representing Michael Myshkin, who was arrested and charged for the murder of one of the girls and BJ is on the run from everyone and everything.

None of the Red Riding Quartet stands alone, they all form one large story told by different characters, but I think reading them one after the other would be too much, too intense. Having said that, I think it was too long since I read Nineteen Eighty and some of the details were a little dulled in my head. I'd seen the incredible Channel 4 adaptation well worth a watch for any fan and I think that helped certain characters cement into my mind.

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For me this was a help rather than a hindrance. As the narrative changes between these three characters it can be initially confusing as to whose point of view it is with the start of each chapter. That's the only reason I marked it 4 stars instead of 5. Otherwise, it's a series like no other. If you can hold your stomach it's certainly not pretty and described with graphic detail and you can put up with the bad language then jump into this world.

David Peace's heady world of violence and corruption is a world like no other and I can't wait to read more of his. Oct 24, Michael rated it it was amazing Shelves: The four books were made into an equally searing three part movie entitled "Red Riding" which is another term used to describe that part of England. The movie was so well done that I felt compelled to read the books. Since there were some change is the final book in the four part series, , , Since there were some changes to the movie version due to time constraints, the books helped to provide a better understanding of the story and characters.

Peace's writing style is brutaly searing and reflects the grimness and horror of what he is writing about. It also takes place during the Margaret Thatcher era which back ground serves to further darken the mood of the story to relect that of the country. It is not for the squeamish. It is atmospherically depressing and horrific.

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Not only is it raining almost continuously in the North but the continuously black and gray sky is pissing rain. People don't just get sick to their stomach, they vommit and spew into the bogs. Not only does Peace write a compelling murder mystery but he describes an atmosphere of police brutality and corruption and cover up that was taking place as well. In the story flashes back to characters and events from the previous books to fill in details and understanding of what really was going on in the earlier books.

One of the main characters, chief detective superintendant, Maurice Jobson, who has participated in some of the brutality and corruption finally comes to terms with what has happened. Hunter tracks down B. Strachan was a waiter at the club; she and her friend B. Hunter's dialogue with B. Nolan takes Hunter downstairs to the cells where Hunter enters to see Craven slouched back in a chair, shot through his head.

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He realises that Nolan was one of the five who took part in the Karachi Club shootings, but Nolan quickly shoots him dead. Alderman and Prentice plant the gun to make it look like Hunter and Craven shot each other. In a final scene, Joan Hunter is comforted by Reverend Laws at her husband's graveside. It is revealed that it was he who tipped off Dunford about the arson in the Roma camp near Hunslet , in which Jobson took part under pressure by Molloy. It is also revealed that he knew about the innocence of Michael Myshkin Daniel Mays , a mentally retarded man who was accused of the serial killings in Jobson is aware of a conspiracy within the WYMP protecting high-profile figures, including Dawson, from public exposure.

Jobson's pangs of conscience are brought upon by his investigation into the recent disappearance of a young girl named Hazel Atkins, and lead him to open previous cases. He also starts an intimate relationship with a medium Saskia Reeves , who seems to be in possession of valuable information concerning the more recent crimes. His inquiries lead him to Leonard Cole Gerard Kearns , the young man who found the swan-stitched victim in and who is now being framed for Atkins' disappearance.

Cole is tortured and murdered by the police, his death disguised as a suicide. Using information given by Myshkin, Piggott finds a mine shaft hidden in a pigeon shed near Laws' home, where it is revealed that a paedophile and child-murdering ring was run in West Yorkshire by Reverend Laws, and that clients of this ring included significant figures of society, among them businessmen such as Dawson and policemen such as Piggott's own father. It is implied that only when children with known, stable local families were abducted did the criminal structure run the risk of being made public.

This was the main reason for the constables' indirect assistance in Dawson's demise, thereby solving the "two little problems" referred to by Angus a nosy young journalist and a businessman with a dark secret at the same time without compromising their million-pound investment on the commercial center. It is clear that, at least after , Laws counted on the complicity and even direct collaboration of high-ranking officials in the WYMP, although the extent of his grip on the police, the reasons why he did not share a fate similar to Dawson's and the degree of knowledge WYMP brass had of his and Dawson's activities prior to are left open to speculation.

Finally, it is also revealed that B. He ends up returning to Laws' home to enact revenge, but in the last moment finds himself unable to do so due to Laws' mind-numbing, domineering influence on him. Seconds before Laws is about to drill into B. He then opens the hidden entrance to the mine shaft just in time for Piggott to emerge from it with a still-living Hazel Atkins in his arms.

Thus three characters — Jobson, Piggott and B. Nevertheless, none of the characters, nor the murder victims, bear the names of real people and only a few see below have obvious real-life models. The wrongful prosecution and imprisonment of the character Michael Myshkin is a clear parallel to the real-life case of Stefan Kiszko , falsely accused of and convicted for the killing of year-old Lesley Molseed in He was later proved innocent.

The mission and subsequent official vilification of Assistant Chief Constable Peter Hunter in Red Riding are strongly reminiscent of the case of John Stalker , a real life Deputy Chief Constable of the Greater Manchester Police who headed an investigation into the shooting of suspected members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army in Columbia Pictures has acquired the rights to adapt the novels and films into a theatrical film.

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