A major new novel from one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists 2003. Famous for his visceral sequence of novels, The Red Riding Quartet, and acclaimed as the most gifted and original crime writer to have emerged since James Ellroy, in GB84 David Peace turns his talents to the most wrenching, socially devastating and unhappy struggle of the past half century in Britain: the 1984 miner's strike. In his signature clipped prose and through a kaleidoscopic whirl of characters and perspectives, Peace describes the boardroom and coalfield battles; the struggle for influence in government and the dwindling powers of the union; and the corruption, intrigue and dirty tricks which run through the whole like a fault in a seam of coal.
- ISBN13 9780571221745
- Publish Date 3 March 2005 (first published 4 March 2004)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 22 August 2013
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Faber & Faber
- Format Paperback
- Pages 480
- Language English