Gb84 Av David (Author) Peace

<p><b>Stylish, riveting and appalling, </b><i><b>GB84</b></i><b> is a shocking fictional documentation of the violence, sleaze and fraudulence that characterised Thatcher''s Britain.</b><br><br>Great Britain. 1984. The miners'' strike. It is the closest Britain has come to civil war in fifty years, setting the government against the people.<br><br>In his trademark visceral prose, Peace describes the insidious workings of the boardroom negotiations and the increasingly anarchic coalfield battles; the struggle for influence in government and the dwindling powers of the NUM; and the corruption, intrigue and dirty tricks which run through the whole like a fault in a seam of coal.<br><br>David Peace has written a novel extraordinary in its reach, and unflinching in its capacity to recreate the brutality and passion that changed the course of British history in the late twentieth century.<br><br>''A genuine British original.'' <i>Guardian</i><br><br>''Peace is a writer of such immense talent