Book Overview
An axe-wielding psychopath carves young Dora Suarez into pieces. On the same night, in the West End, a firearm blows the top off the head of Felix Roatta, part-owner of the seedy Parallel Club. Our unnamed detective develops a fixation on the young woman whose murder he investigates.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:185242799X
ISBN13:9781852427993
Release Date:November 2008
Publisher:Serpent's Tail
Length:201 Pages
Weight:0.42 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 5.0" x 7.6"
Customer Reviews
4 ratings
raw and real
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 15 years ago
Just might leave certain readers scarred for life. Not for the weak of mind or belly. Derek Raymond was one of the best in the genre.
Perverse, Intense and Ultimately Satisfying
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 22 years ago
This is the fourth book of Derek Raymond's (deceased unfortunately) acclaimed (and rather scarce) Factory series. The narrator becomes increasingly obsessed with the horrific life of the victim whose death he is investigating. The perversity of the life and death of Dora Suarez will shock any reader, no matter how hard-boiled your tastes. But the perversion isn't gratuitous and the story not without redemption at some level. As the subtitle of the book says:"The tragedy with help is that it never arrives." So if your tastes runs to hard-boiled, and you want to stray pretty far off the beaten path and you are willing to make the effort to slog through English english,find this book and read it, you won't regret it and you won't forget it.
Gritty, Dark, Extraordinary
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 24 years ago
This book brings us to the same dark, gritty, ignoble London that we know from movies like "Naked'. A bag lady, Dora Suarez, is brutally and shockingly murdered, and seedy, down-at heel cop Frank is the only person who thinks it matters. Plodding the dismal streets and speaking to people who do not care, he researches her life and death, becoming, because there is no-one else, the only person who ever cared for her. A compassionate book, a shocking book, an unjustly neglected book and one that will delight followers of detective and police fiction. One of the most twisted and evil villians in all literature.
"Feel-good" novel of the year? Trite sarcasm aside...
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 27 years ago
In an age where post-modernism is, pathetically, worn on endless worthy, fashionably distressed sleeves, the contemporary novel would seem to have lost its capacity to shock. However, this novel might serve as a possible anodyne to such complacent musings. Inexorably disgusting, depressing and nihilistic...and yet... utterly compulsive...
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