Hopperesque

Hopperesque

Tuesday 2 April 2013

Derek Raymond


       Every day you amass knowledge in a frantic race against death that death must win. You want to find out everything in the time you have ; yet in the end you wonder why you bothered. It'll all be lost. I keep trying to explain this to anyone who will listen.

He Died with His Eyes Open
Derek Raymond
1984

        Often talked about as the darkest of all the British based Hardboiled authors, his fiction is certainly not for the squeamish. He produced a number of novels which featured the nameless detective working on cold cases and became known as the Factory series.

He Died with His Eyes Open
The Devil's Home on Leave
How the Dead Live
I Was Dora Suarez
Dead Man Upright

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