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 *

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.