David Peace

The Occupation had a hangover, but still the Occupation went to work. Tokyo, July 1949, President Shimoyama, Head of the National Railways of Japan, goes missing just a day after serving notice of 30,000 job losses. In the midst of the US Occupation, against the backdrop of widespread social, political and economic reforms - as tensions and confusion reign - American Detective Harry Sweeney leads the missing persons investigation for General MacArthurs GHQ.Some men go mad, some men go missing . Fifteen years later and Tokyo is booming. As the city prepares for the 1964 Olympics and the global spotlight, Hideki Murota, a former policeman during the Occupation period, and now a private investigator, is given a case which forces him to go back to confront a time, a place and a crime hes been hiding from for the past fifteen years. Some men do both . Over twenty years later, in the autumn and winter of 1988, as the Emperor Showa is dying, Donald Reichenbach, an aging American, eking out a living teaching and translating, sits drinking by the Shinobazu Pond in Ueno, knowing the final reckoning of the greatest mystery of the Showa Era is down to him.

Gran Bretaña, 1984. El anuncio del cierre de las minas de carbón desencadena la mayor huelga de la historia británica. Durante un año, el todopoderoso Sindicato Nacional de Mineros mantendrá un pulso con el gobierno de Margaret Thatcher, quien decide tratar a los huelguistas como "the enemy within".El Judio, un oscuro ejecutivo de los servicios secretos, sera la persona elegida por la primera ministra para aplastar al movimiento obrero; enfrente tendra al carismatico lider minero Arthur Scargill, el Rey Carbon, y a sus lugartenientes.Con un pais en pie de guerra, ¿hasta donde estara dispuesto a llegar un gobierno para machacar a su enemigo interno?"Peace ha convertido la epica de la gran huelga minera en un apasionante thriller, sin detrimento del realismo documental".Terry Eagleton, The Guardian"La novela de David Peace sobre la ultima guerra civil inglesa es un analisis emocionante de un choque titanico".Euan Ferguson, The Guardian"Un 1984 mas grotesco aun que el de Orwell".Sukhdev Sandhu, The Telegraph "Gotico politico". Andy Beckett, London Review of Books "El relato "oculto" de las 53 semanas de brutal confrontacion politica, social e ideologica convierte a GB84 en una novela enormemente significativa".Alex Clark, The Times

Hace un año que Japón se ha rendido en la Segunda Guerra Mundial. En medio de la confusión y el caos que sigue, los cuerpos parcialmente descompuestos, violados y estrangulados, de dos mujeres se encuentran en el parque Shiba de la ciudad de Tokio. Pronto se descubriran mas asesinatos: mujeres asesinadas de la misma manera y, queda claro, por la misma mano.Narrado por el cinico, desesperado pero decidido detective Minami de la Policia Metropolitana de Tokio, Tokio año cero ficciona la historia real del Barba Azul japones, un soldado imperial condecorado que violo y asesino al menos a diez mujeres en medio de la desolacion del Japon de la posguerra (un enorme mar de personas desplazadas... Un segundo estas aqui y al otro has desaparecido). Y esta es tambien la historia del detective Minami: perseguir y perseguir recuerdos de atrocidades que ya no puede explicar ni perdonar.

En 1974, el brillante y controvertido Brian Clough tomó las riendas como entrenador del Leeds United, que la temporada anterior había ganado la Liga liderado por su anterior Míster, Don Revie, el eterno rival de Clough. El fugaz y fatidico periplo de Clough en el Leeds duraria tan solo cuarenta y cuatro dias.El relato intercala estas funestas jornadas con la narracion de la trepidante trayectoria de un joven Clough, que, tras sufrir una temprana lesion que lo aparto prematuramente de los terrenos de juego y de dirigir al Hartlepool, logro que un Derby County por el que nadie daba un duro fuera campeon de Segunda Division en la temporada 1968-1969 y se coronara campeon de Primera en 1972, gesta que convirtio a Clough y a su segundo entrenador, Peter Taylor, en leyendas.Con una prosa adusta y obsesiva que reinventa el "stream of consciousness" joyceano y bebe del particular estilo de Thomas Bernhard, Peace erige el retrato de un hombre enloquecido por una ambicion desmedida, iracundo y crapula, despotico y vengativo, que conmociono y fascino a partes iguales a los ingleses desde los banquillos, los platos de television y las columnas de la prensa deportiva. A partir de un exhaustivo proceso de documentacion, Peace reconstruye en esta sobresaliente obra de ficcion documentada algunos de los dias mas aciagos e intensos del futbol britanico.Maldito United esta considerada una de las mejores novelas jamas escritas sobre el futbol.

Grobritannien, 1984. George Orwells dustere Vision ist Wirklichkeit geworden. Die Bergarbeiter sind in Streik getreten und kampfen um ihre Arbeitsplatze, um ihre Zukunft. Doch die Premierministerin und ihre Handlanger sind gnadenlose Gegner. Sie hetzen die Presse auf, lassen Gewerkschaften bespitzeln, saen Gewalt. Inmitten dieser Eskalation, die das Land an den Rand eines Burgerkrieges treibt, beginnt ein Spiel um Leben und Tod. Terry Winters, der als Gewerkschaftsfuhrer schon bald mit dem Rucken zur Wand steht, hat in Stephen Sweet, dem zwielichtigen Strippenzieher der Regierung, einen gefahrlichen Kontrahenten. Der Geheimdienst schickt David Johnson los, der die Jobs erledigt, die anderen zu schmutzig sind. Aber dann lauft ein Auftrag schief, und es gibt die ersten Toten. Spuren und Zeugen mussen beseitigt werden, wobei Johnson schlielich selbst ins Visier ruckt. Als seine Frau entfuhrt wird, gerat er auer Kontrolle Unnachgiebig zerrt David Peace die Leichen aus dem Keller der englischen Zeitgeschichte. "GB84" ist ein finsteres, atemloses Epos uber den Verrat moralischer Werte und die Verzweiflung von Menschen, die alles verlieren konnen - und deshalb zu allem bereit sind.

August 1946: One year on from surrender and Tokyo lies broken and bleeding at the feet of its American victors. Set against an extraordinary historical backdrop, "Tokyo Year Zero" opens with the discovery of the bodies of two young women in Shiba Park. Against his wishes, Detective Minami is assigned to the case, soon realising that his own past and secrets are indelibly linked to those of the victims and their killer...

The Ripper has claimed his thirteenth victim As public anger mounts, Assistant Chief Constable Peter Hunter is dispatched to take over the investigation He soon realises that the police are more heavily implicated in the murders than anyone could have imagined Jack whitehead, alone and mad in a mental institution, appears to hold the key To catch those responsible, Hunter must stare down the darkness and survive...

The overweight lawyer Big John Pigott finds that the man convicted for Clare Kemplay´s murder might be innocent- and that all the people who could answer his questions are dead. BJ the rent-boy is plagued by the horrors he has witnessed. Soon he must confront the possiblility that the man purporting to be his saviour is the devil himself.

Second in the "Red Riding Quartet", this tale is set in Jubilee year. Its heroes, the half-decent copper Bof Fraser and the burnt-out hack Jack Whitehead are the only two who suspect that there is more than one killer at large among the Chapeltown whores.

Tokyo, 26 January, 1948. As the third year of the US Occupation of Japan begins, a man enters a downtown bank. He speaks of an outbreak of dysentery and says he is a doctor, sent by the Occupation authorities, to treat anyone who might have been exposed. Clear liquid is poured into sixteen teacups. Sixteen employees of the bank drink this liquid according to strict instructions. Within minutes twelve of them are dead, the other four unconscious. The man disappears along with some, but not all, of the bank's money. And so begins the biggest manhunt in Japanese history. In Occupied City, David Peace dramatizes and explores the rumours of complicity, conspiracy and cover-up that surround the chilling case of the Teikoku Bank Massacre: of the man who was convicted of the crime, of the legacy of biological warfare programmes, and of the victims and survivors themselves. The second part of his acclaimed Tokyo Trilogy - and an extraordinary picture of a city in mourning - Occupied City is further evidence of this novelist's singular and formidable talent.

August 1946. One year on from surrender and Tokyo lies broken and bleeding at the feet of its American victors. Facing the threat of a second purge, the surviving officers of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Dept, with their changed identities and false names, realise they can trust no one, least of all each other. Meanwhile another war is breaking out, as different ethnic groups fight for control of the city's black markets. Against this extraordinary historical backdrop, "Tokyo Year Zero" opens with the discovery of the bodies of two young women in Shiba Park. Against his wishes, Detective Minami is assigned to the case, and as he gets drawn ever deeper into these complex and horrific murders, he realises that his own past and secrets are indelibly linked to those of the victims and their killer.

Basada en el caso real de un asesino en serie después de la segunda guerra mundial en Japón, David Peace ha escrito un retrato expresionista de una época y lugares angustiosos.Tokio ha sido gravemente dañada por los bombardeos aliados, la poblacion se muere de hambre mientras los vencedores, despotas y brutales, ocupan el territorio.En medio del calor y del caos, el inspector de policia japones Minami se dirige sin mucha conviccion a la escena de un crimen. Una mujer joven aparece estrangulada en un parque de la ciudad y Minami intuye que es cuestion de tiempo que mas mujeres aparezcan muertas.Adicto a los calmantes y sumido en las redes del señor del crimen local, Minami, se esfuerza por averiguar el origen de estos crimenes complejos y escalofriantes, convencido, cada vez mas, de quesu propio pasado y sus mas oscuros secretos estan ligados a los de su asesino.Reseñas:No tengo inconvenientes en decir que David Peace es el futuro de la novela negra. Es el James Ellroy britanico, tiene un talento extraordinario.Ian RankinDavid Peace es uno de los novelistas mas relevantes, salvajes y geniales que han surgido del Reino Unido en las ultimas tres decadas.Javier CalvoEscribe con electrica precision. Frases cortas y aisladas, que diseccionan como cuchillos la trama que avanza.David TruebaSe llama David Peace, pero lo que escribe, brutal, malsano e inquietante, poco tiene que ver con su apellido. No hay nada pacifico en sus historias.Elena Hevia,El periodico de CatalunyaLa prosa en staccato es un instrumento perfecto para este infierno interior.The GuardianEl musculo estilistico de Peace y la velocidad narrativa convierten esta novela en un thriller historico exigente. [...] Si la guerra es deshumanizadora, la ultima novela de David Peace nos recuerda el poder redentor del arte.The Japan Times

Basada en la masacre del banco Teikoku ocurrida en 1948, Ciudad ocupada es la segunda novela de la «Trilogía de Tokio».El 26 de enero de 1948, un hombre que se hace pasar por funcionario de salud p

In 1959, Liverpool Football Club were in the Second Division. Liverpool Football Club had never won the FA Cup. Fifteen seasons later, Liverpool Football Club had won three League titles, two FA Cups and the UEFA Cup. Liverpool Football Club had become the most consistently successful team in England. And the most passionately supported club. Their manager was revered as a god. Destined for immortality. Their manager was Bill Shankly. His job was his life. His life was football. His football a form of socialism. Bill Shankly inspired people. Bill Shankly transformed people. The players and the supporters. His legacy would reveberate through the ages. In 1974, Liverpool Football Club and Bill Shankly stood on the verge of even greater success. In England and in Europe. But in 1974, Bill Shankly shocked Liverpool and football. Bill Shankly resigned. Bill Shankly retired. Red or Dead is the story of the rise of Liverpool Football Club and Bill Shankly. And the story of the retirement of Bill Shankly. Of one man and his work. And of the man after that work. A man in two halves. Home and away. Red or dead.

Ryuosuke Akutagawa was one of Japan's great writers. He lived through Japan's turbulent Taisho period, including the devastating 1923 earthquake, only to take his own life at the age of just thirty-five in 1927. Inpsired by Akutagawa's stories, essays and letters, David Peace has fashioned an extraordinary novel of tales. An intense, passionate, haunting paean to one writer, it also thrillingly explores the act of writing itself, and the role of the artist, both in public and private life, in times which darkly mirror our own.