Red or Dead

A "New York Times "Editors' Choice
""" T]he stuff of great literature." --"The New York Times"
""Red or Dead" is a winner." --"The Washington Post"
From the bestselling author of "The Damned Utd "and The Red Riding Quartet comes a major new novel
The place where the swinging sixties [...]
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A "New York Times "Editors' Choice
""" T]he stuff of great literature." --"The New York Times"
""Red or Dead" is a winner." --"The Washington Post"
From the bestselling author of "The Damned Utd "and The Red Riding Quartet comes a major new novel
The place where the swinging sixties started - Liverpool, England, birthplace of the Beatles - wasn't so swinging. Amid industrial blight and a bad economy, the port town's shipping industry was going bust and there was widespread unemployment, with no assistance from a government tightening its belt. Even the Beatles moved to London.
Into these hard times walked Bill Shankly, a former Scottish coal miner who took over the city's perpetually last-place soccer team. He had a straightforward work ethic and a favorite song - a silly pop song done by a local band, "You'll Never Walk Alone." Soon he would have entire stadiums singing along, tens of thousands of people all dressed in the team color red . . . as Liverpool began to win . . .
And soon, too, there was something else those thousands of people would chant as one: Shank-lee, Shank-lee . . .
In "Red or Dead," the acclaimed writer David Peace tells the stirring story of the real-life working-class hero who lifted the spirits of an entire city in turbulent times. But "Red or Dead" is more than a fictional biography of a real man, and more than a thrilling novel about sports. It is an epic novel that transcends those categories, until there's nothing left to call it but - as many of the world's leading newspapers already have - a masterpiece.