David Peace

The Damned Utd is a novel by British author David Peace. The main plot depicts a fictionalised account of Brian Clough's brief spell as manager of Leeds United football club in 1974.

The first installment of David Peace's electrifying Red Riding Quartet vividly brings to life a gritty, dangerous working class city tormented by a series of brutal murders. Nineteen Seventy-Four follows Eddie Dunford, the newly minted crime correspondent for the Yorkshire Post. His first story is about Clare Kemplay, …

With Nineteen Eighty Three David Peace completes his red riding quartet, a sustained epic of Yorkshire Noir. Nineteen Eighty Three's intertwining storylines see the quartet's central themes of corruption and the perversion of justice come to a head: BJ the rent boy, the lawyer big John Pigott, who's as near as you get …