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I Was Dora Suarez
Derek Raymond
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Description for I Was Dora Suarez
Paperback. An axe-wielding psychopath carves young Dora Suarez into pieces and smashes the head of Suarez's friend, an elderly woman. The unnamed narrator, a sergeant in the Metropolitan Police's Unexplained Deaths division, develops a fixation on the young woman whose murder he investigates and discovers that Suarez's death is more bizarre than suspected. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 14. Weight in Grams: 150.
An axe-wielding psychopath carves young Dora Suarez into pieces and smashes the head of Suarez's friend, an elderly woman. 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. The unnamed narrator, a sergeant in the Metropolitan Police's Unexplained Deaths division, develops a fixation on the young woman whose murder he investigates. And he discovers that Suarez's death is even more bizarre than suspected: the murderer ate bits of flesh from Suarez's corpse and ejaculated against her thigh. Autopsy results compound the puzzle: Suarez was dying of AIDS, but the pathologist can't tell how the virus was introduced. Then a photo, supplied by a former Parallel hostess, links Suarez to Roatta, and inquiries at the club reveal how vile and inhuman exploitation can become. I Was Dora Suarez is the fourth book in the Factory series
Product Details
Publisher
Profile Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Weight
149g
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781852427993
SKU
V9781852427993
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About Derek Raymond
Derek Raymond was born Robin Cook in 1931. His novels include A State of Denmark, The Crust on its Uppers, I Was Dora Suarez and How the Dead Live, which was made into a film. The son of a textile magnate, he dropped out of Eton aged sixteen and spent much of his early career among criminals and was employed at various times as a pornographer, organiser of illegal gambling, money launderer, pig-slaughterer and minicab driver. He died in London in 1994.
Reviews for I Was Dora Suarez
A sulphurous mixture of ferocious violence and high-flown philosophy.
Prospect
A mixture of thin-lipped Chandleresque backchat and of idioms more icily subversive.
Observer
Deadbeat, downbeat but thoroughly believable, and evoked with the scary precision of a scalpel slicing through flesh... extreme, but like nothing else you'll ever read
Richard Rayner
Los Angeles Times
I cannot think of another writer so obsessed with the skull beneath the skin.
The Times
Raymond writes with a stomach-churning exactness about murder, madness and mutilation.
The Times
If you think of the act of writing as a game of chicken between the author and his talent, then Derek Raymond is one author who achieves his ecstasy by sailing off cliffs. Everything about I Was Dora Suarez shrieks of the joy and pain of going too far.
New York Times
Prospect
A mixture of thin-lipped Chandleresque backchat and of idioms more icily subversive.
Observer
Deadbeat, downbeat but thoroughly believable, and evoked with the scary precision of a scalpel slicing through flesh... extreme, but like nothing else you'll ever read
Richard Rayner
Los Angeles Times
I cannot think of another writer so obsessed with the skull beneath the skin.
The Times
Raymond writes with a stomach-churning exactness about murder, madness and mutilation.
The Times
If you think of the act of writing as a game of chicken between the author and his talent, then Derek Raymond is one author who achieves his ecstasy by sailing off cliffs. Everything about I Was Dora Suarez shrieks of the joy and pain of going too far.
New York Times