Nightmare in the Street
Derek Raymond author John Williams editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Profile Books Ltd
Published:11th Sep '06
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A plain-clothes copper in Paris, Kleber is 40 years old, drinks hard and smokes fifty a day. He is devoted to his young wife, Elenya, a former prostitute whom he rescued from her pimp, but he is embittered by 22 years on the streets, and his sleep is haunted by dreams of death. Kleber has many enemies, and only one friend: a criminal named Mark. When Kleber is suspended from the police force for punching a fellow officer, his underworld adversaries seize their chance to bring him to heel. Down but not out, Kleber will show no mercy to those who harm the ones he loves. Derek Raymond?s final book ? the typescript was discovered after his death in 1994 ? Nightmare in the Street is a fitting finale to a career spent writing about, and indeed living among, the darkest reaches of humanity.
?A unique crime writer whose fictional world was brutal, realistic and harrowing in the extreme? Maxim Jakubowski, Guardian
One of the few novelists to bring the style of American noir genre to the London streets, Raymond was a unique stylist and a great influence on a later generation of crime writers -- Publishing News ?Raymond, who died in London in 1994, saw life through a glass darkly and wrote it that way? Kirkus ?Transcendental? Independent ?A strange and poetic existential fable? the discomfort caused by reading him is genuine and twofold: the * unremitting bleakness of vision and a faint underlying suspicion that the old con artist is still at work and the reader (and critic) is viewed as one more in a long line of mug punters? Guardian *
ISBN: 9781852429089
Dimensions: 197mm x 129mm x 13mm
Weight: 150g
192 pages
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