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I Was Dora Suarez
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Book Details
- ISBN 9781852427993
- 13 March 2008
- 192 pp
- Paperback Original
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Synopsis
An axe-wielding psychopath carves young Dora Suarez into pieces and smashes the head of Suarez's friend, an elderly woman. On the same night, in the West End, a firearm blows the top off the head of Felix Roatta, part-owner of the seedy Parallel Club.
The unnamed narrator, a sergeant in the Metropolitan Police's Unexplained Deaths division, develops a fixation on the young woman whose murder he investigates. And he discovers that Suarez's death is even more bizarre than suspected: the murderer ate bits of flesh from Suarez's corpse and ejaculated against her thigh.
Autopsy results compound the puzzle: Suarez was dying of AIDS, but the pathologist can't tell how the virus was introduced. Then a photo, supplied by a former Parallel hostess, links Suarez to Roatta, and inquiries at the club reveal how vile and inhuman exploitation can become.
I Was Dora Suarez is the fourth book in the Factory series
Reviews
‘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
‘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
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- The Crust On Its Uppers
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- He Died with His Eyes Open
- Nightmare in the Street
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