Derek Raymond
Derek Raymond was the pseudonym of Robert Cook, born in London in 1931. The son of a textile magnate, he dropped out of Eton and rejected a life of privilege for a life of underworld adventure, which included working for London's notorious Kray Brothers' crime syndicate. His writing about that world culminated in the five Factory novels now seen as landmarks in British fiction: He Died with His Eyes Open , The Devil's Home on Leave , How the Dead Live , I Was Dora Suarez , and Dead Man Upright...See more
Derek Raymond was the pseudonym of Robert Cook, born in London in 1931. The son of a textile magnate, he dropped out of Eton and rejected a life of privilege for a life of underworld adventure, which included working for London's notorious Kray Brothers' crime syndicate. His writing about that world culminated in the five Factory novels now seen as landmarks in British fiction: He Died with His Eyes Open , The Devil's Home on Leave , How the Dead Live , I Was Dora Suarez , and Dead Man Upright . See less
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