He Died with His Eyes Open: Factory 1
by Derek Raymond
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- Paperback
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- ISBN 10
- 1852427965
- ISBN 13
- 9781852427962
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Derek Raymond was the pseudonym of British writer Robert Cook, who was 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 adventure. He traveled the world, living in Paris at the Beat Hotel and on New York’s seedy Lower East Side, smuggled artworks into Amsterdam, and spent time in a Spanish prison for publicly making fun of Franco. Finally, he landed back in London, working in the lower echelons of the Kray Brothers’ crime syndicate laundering money, organizing illegal gambling, and setting up insurance scams. He eventually took to writing—first as a pornographer, but then as an increasingly serious novelist, writing about the desperate characters and experiences he’d known in London’s underground. His work culminated in the Factory novels, landmarks that have led many to consider him the founding father of British noir. He died in London in 1993.
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- Title
- He Died with His Eyes Open: Factory 1
- Author
- Derek Raymond
- Format/Binding
- Paperback / softback
- Book Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 10
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1852427965
- ISBN 13
- 9781852427962
- Publisher
- Serpent's Tail
- Place of Publication
- [london]
- This edition first published
- October 31, 2006
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