The Devil's Home On Leave: Factory 2

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A man s corpse is discovered in a Rotherhithe warehouse, chopped up, boiled to avoid identification, and bundled into five Waitrose carrier bags. Our nameless narrator from A14 - the Unexplained Deaths division of the Met - is put on the case. Operating, as usual, with his wit and sheer nerve in place of adequate resources and contacts, the narrator s investigations uncover much more than the murderer. As he probes a world of horror in South London, a terrible secret from his own past emerges.

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A bizarre mixture of Chandleresque elegance... and naked brutality Daily Telegraph Hellishly bleak and moving New Statesman He writes beautifully, and his sincerity cannot be faulted Evening Standard Raymond writes with a stomach-churning exactness about murder, madness and mutilation The Times Superb... an English Chandler... only better Daily Mail A mixture of thin-lipped Chandleresque backchat and of idioms more icily subversive Observer Raw-edged, strong and disturbing stuff The Scotsman

Author Bio

Derek Raymond was born Robin Cook in 1931. The son of a textile magnate, he dropped out of Eton aged sixteen and spent much of his early career among criminals. The Factory series followed his early novels, The Crust on Its Uppers and A State of Denmark. His literary memoir The Hidden Files was published in 1992. He died in London in 1994.