"A unique crime writer whose fictional world was brutal, realistic and harrowing in the extreme."-- Guardian In the three police procedurals that comprise the Factory Series, Derek Raymond has created a narrator who threatens to become a cult figure while preserving his anonymity. A loner and cynic, undervalued and underpaid, our hero is a nameless detective sergeant in the Department of Unexplained Deaths, a catch-all unit that investigates low-life crimes and is shunned by the blokes in the Serious Crimes Division of ...
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"A unique crime writer whose fictional world was brutal, realistic and harrowing in the extreme."-- Guardian In the three police procedurals that comprise the Factory Series, Derek Raymond has created a narrator who threatens to become a cult figure while preserving his anonymity. A loner and cynic, undervalued and underpaid, our hero is a nameless detective sergeant in the Department of Unexplained Deaths, a catch-all unit that investigates low-life crimes and is shunned by the blokes in the Serious Crimes Division of the Metropolitan Police. But our narrator, working out of the Factory, named by the villains because it has a bad reputation for doing suspects over in the interrogation rooms, is fired by a real feeling for justice. He believes that an alcoholic, found obscenely battered to death in a seedy, down-and-out part of London, deserves as much official attention as, say, a dead politician. This "nobody" becomes a somebody--a kindred spirit who left behind a strange legacy. Our cop becomes obsessed by the case. But even he could not have imagined how vicious, evil, and perversely attractive his opponent will turn out to be.
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Derek Raymond came as a surprise to me. Why hadn't I ever heard of him before? This novel is the first in his "Factory" series, about a tired and cynical yet stolidly moral detective with a ferocious sense of justice, who works in a thankless job in a remote "unsolved crimes" department of the London police. He takes crime very personally, and when an apparently down-and-out nobody is found murdered, the detective explores the man's life through a series of dictated tapes and discovers a kindred spirit in whose footsteps he follows until the killers are unearthed. Raymond's barely suppressed anger at the world and his pitch-perfect ear for London dialects and dialogue make this a fast and absorbing read.
