A noir-drenched British import about a nameless cop chasing the
killer of an unmourned victim.With a flat wallet and shabby
clothes, it's clear that the corpse is a throwaway. Nobody cares
except for a nameless detective sergeant in the London Metropolitan
Police's Department of Unexplained Deaths, a place where lost souls
sometimes get justice. The victim has two posthumous pieces of
luck: The nameless cop is unusually smart, and he's famously
obsessed. When the brutalized corpse is found half-buried in the
shrubbery fronting the Word of God House, with all signs marking
him as a derelict, Homicide wastes no time before delegating the
case. In his patented, inexorable fashion, the sergeant goes to
work, and four days later, the derelict has been unveiled as
Charles Staniland, a writer who left behind a bonanza of pages and
tapes, furnishing insights into a life that was often tortured and
ultimately wasted. But Charlie's words and thoughts resonate with
the man investigating his murder. He listens, reads, empathizes and
finally acts in a way that has practically nothing to do with law
enforcement and everything to do with retribution.Originally
published in 1984 as the first of a series of six quintessentially
bleak novels that faithfully evoke a world many sensitive souls
will be pleased to avoid. (Kirkus Reviews)
When a middle-aged alcoholic is found brutally battered to death on
a roadside in West London, the case is assigned to a nameless
detective sergeant, a tough-talking cynic and fearless loner from
the Department of Unexplained Deaths at the Factory police station.
Working from cassette tapes left behind in the dead man's property,
our narrator must piece together the history of his blighted
existence and discover the agents of its cruel end. What he doesn't
expect is that digging for the truth will demand plenty of lying,
and that the most terrible of villains will also prove to be the
most attractive. In the first of six police procedurals that
comprise the Factory series, Derek Raymond spins a riveting, and
vividly human crime drama. Relentlessly pursuing justice for the
dispossessed, his detective narrator treads where few others dare:
in the darkest corners of London, a city of sin plagued by
unemployment, racism and vice, and peopled by a cast of low-lifes,
all utterly convincing and brought to life by Raymond's
pitch-perfect dialogue.
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