<b>Never before published in the U.S., <i>GB84</i> will be launched in 2014 alongside two other novels by David Peace: <i>The Damned Utd</i> and <i>Red or Dead</i></b><br><br>In taut and gripping prose that often feels like the relentless text of a surveillance report, <i>GB84</i> tells the story of the British coal miner’s strike of 1984—including the actual bombings, riots and protests that brought the country to the brink of civil war.<br><br>Called by its author “fiction based on fact,” the book depicts a real-life 1984 more violently dystopian than even Orwell imagined. Slowly starving strikers find themselves pitted against a prime minister—Margaret Thatcher—determined to crush them . . . a police force willing to use infiltration and violence to achieve her will . . . and equally hungry scabs who need a job . . .<br><br>Mixing real events and characters with the voices of the increasingly desperate strikers, the book becomes a stirring saga of courage against overwhelmingly sinister forces, and paints a searing and haunting portrait of events that changed the course of British history.