He Died with His Eyes Open, (Paperback)

from nigeyb

My first novel by Derek Raymond (born Robin Cook in 1931, and who died in London in 1994). The son of a textile magnate, he dropped out of Eton aged sixteen and was employed at various times as a pornographer, organiser of illegal gambling, money launderer, pig-slaughterer and minicab driver. Muc...

from darkline

Bleak crime drama with the sort of tough guys that only a generation of encroaching nihilism can create. Through the legacy of a brutalized corpse's confessional audio tapes, the nameless Factory detective discovers what purpose a man can make for himself when despair and hopelessness have devour...

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Distinctive in flavor, brisk in story telling and absolutely brutal, emotionally speaking. This is one of the most intense and atmospheric procedurals I've ever read.

from lriley

A noir thriller--very cinematic in scope--concerns the murder of a middle-aged alcoholic would be writer and the investigation into the matter by a nameless police detective. The novelist Derek Raymond shows somewhat of an unique style in what I believe to be his first novel. The unnamed detectiv...

from antao

Extrem Noir literature... One of the darkest noir novels I’ve ever read and also one of the best. Derek Raymond is far beyond noir. There probably isn't even a word for his kind of darkness I think.I definitely see noir as existentialist literature and this is one of the its primary examples. E...