341 pages
English language
Published Jan. 14, 2001 by Serpent's Tail.
David Peace's acclaimed Red Riding Quartet continues with this exhilarating follow-up to Nineteen Seventy-Four. 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 their own, works tirelessly to catch him. But their investigations turn grisly as they each engage in affairs with the prostitutes they are supposedly protecting. As the summer progresses, the killings accelerate and it seems as if Fraser and Whitehead are the only men who suspect or care that there may be more than one killer at large.From the Trade Paperback edition.
A lukewarm James Ellroy imitation wherein we spend 300 pages with two deeply unpleasant men as they supposedly try to solve murders and assaults but instead commit their own litany of shitty acts. And then they have the audacity to be upset that other men are doing nasty things to these same women.
Was a fan of the miniseries but honestly maybe I ought not to have been.
