1977リッパー (ハヤカワ・ミステリ文庫) [文庫]

If you thought fiction couldn't get darker than David Peace's extraordinary debut, "Nineteen Seventy Four", then think again. "Nineteen Seventy Seven", the second instalment of the "Red Riding Quartet", is one long nightmare. Its heroes - the half decent copper Bob Fraser and the burnt-out hack Jack Whitehead - would be considered villains in most people's books. Fraser and Whitehead have one thing in common though, they're both desperate men dangerously in love with Chapeltown prostitutes.And as the summer moves remorselessly towards the bonfires of Jubilee Night, 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. Out of the horror of true crime, David Peace has fashioned a work of terrible beauty. Like James Ellroy before him, David Peace tells us the true and fearsome secret history of our times. --このテキストは、 ペーパーバック 版に関連付けられています。

売春婦の喉を次々と抉り、英国を震撼させたヨークシャー・リッパー。刑事ボブは愛人の売春婦ジャニスをその魔手から護るべく、独自の捜査を開始。が、“女の皮膚を送る。残りは揚げて食べた”というリッパーからの手紙が届けられ、さらにジャニスが同僚の刑事に強姦されてしまう!狂気の淵に追い込まれながらも、ボブは殺人鬼逮捕に死力をつくすが…累々たる死体が飾る1977年、血塗られた暗黒年代記の第二幕が始まる。

The year is 1977. The Yorkshire Ripper is on the loose murdering prostitutes in the Yorkshire city of Leeds. Two men-a journalist and cop-find their own lives turned over in the desperate race against time to stop the murders. Like his mentor James Ellroy, David Peace has fashioned out of the horror of true crime a work of terrible beauty.

"'Breathless, extravagant, ultra-violent' Independent on Sunday 'British crime fiction's most exciting new voice in decades' GQ 'Brilliant' The Times 'The pace is relentless, the style staccato-plus and the morality bleak and forlorn... Peace's voice is powerful and unique' Guardian 'Quite simply, this is the future of British crime fiction' Time Out 'A triumph of sustained narrative energy that reinvigorates the British crime novel' Daily Telegraph" --このテキストは、 ペーパーバック 版に関連付けられています。

David Peace grew up in Yorkshire in the '70's and vividly remembers listening to the hoax tape of the Yorkshire Ripper on his way home from school. He was selected as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists 2003. In 2007, he was named GQ Writer of the Year. He lives in Japan. --このテキストは、 ペーパーバック 版に関連付けられています。

ピース,デイヴィッド
1967年、イギリス、ヨークシャー生まれ。ジェイムズ・エルロイに傾倒し、作家を志す。1999年、「ヨークシャー四部作」の第一作『1974 ジョーカー』でデビューし、馳星周やジョージ・P・ペレケーノスから高く評価される。東京在住

酒井 武志
1961年生、京都大学理学部卒、英米文学翻訳家(本データはこの書籍が刊行された当時に掲載されていたものです)