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-Peace writes the boldest and most original British fiction of his generation.-
RICHARD LLOYD PARRY, NEW YORK TIMES
''Hypnotic.''
GUARDIAN, on Red or Dead
''Probably the best novel ever written about sport.''
THE TIMES, on The Damned Utd
From the author of The Damned Utd and Red or Dead, an extraordinary novel about Britain, sport and our collective past.
February 6, 1958, British European Airways Flight 609 crashed on take-off at Munich Airport. On board were the young Manchester United team, -the Busby Babes-, and the journalists who followed them. Twenty-one of the passengers died instantly, four were left fighting for their lives while six more were critically injured. Twenty-four hours later, Jimmy Murphy, the assistant manager of Manchester United, faced the press at the Rechts der Isar Hospital:
-What of the future, you a
