Nightmare in the Street [Paperback]

Derek Raymond (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 1, 2006

“A legendary crime novelist.”—The Sunday Times
 
A plainclothes cop in Paris, Kleber is forty years old and devoted to his young wife, Elenya, a former prostitute whom he rescued from her pimp. He is embittered by twenty-two 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 enemies seize their chance to get even.

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"'A unique crime writer whose fictional world was brutal, realistic and harrowing in the extreme' Maxim Jakubowski, Guardian 'Peopled by a fast-talking shower of queens, spades, morries, slags, shysters, grifters and grafters of every description, The Crust on its Uppers is one of the great London novels' New Statesman A State of Denmark is a fascinating and important novel by one of our best writers in or outside of any genre' Time Out"

About the Author

Raymond was born Robin Cook in 1931. 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.

Product Details

• Paperback: 184 pages
• Publisher: Serpent's Tail (December 1, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1852429089
• ISBN-13: 978-1852429089
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.3 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,506,353 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1.0 out of 5 stars very bad, November 20, 2006

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This review is from: Nightmare in the Street (Paperback)

I have read all of Raymonds crime fiction and I preordered this book. It consist in large part of despairing reflections on the meaning of life and on the redemptive power of love. The characters, all French, speak exactly as do the characters in Raymonds fiction set in Britain. There are "coppers" and "villains". The protagonist recites "Soloman Grundy" to himself. The moments of violence might have been copied from "Dead Man Upright." Raymond may have been right when he said that writing "Dora Suarez" had finished him. This book is very unsatisfying.