Dead Man Upright Factory 5 Series DEREK RAYMOND 2012 Melville PBK OOP HTF

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A book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover including scuff marks, but no holes or tears. The dust jacket for hard covers may not be included. Binding has minimal wear. The majority of pages are undamaged with minimal creasing or tearing, minimal pencil underlining of text, no highlighting of text, no writing in margins. No missing pages. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
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“GOOD+ 2012. Melville International Crime. 1ST PAPERBACK PRINT. Unmarked. Text appears to be free of ...
Ex Libris
No
Vintage
Yes
Personalize
No
Inscribed
No
Personalized
No
Narrative Type
Fiction
Features
BOOK 5, OUT OF PRINT, PAPERBACK
Signed
No
ISBN
9781612190624
Category

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Melville House Publishing
ISBN-10
1612190626
ISBN-13
9781612190624
eBay Product ID (ePID)
108189325

Product Key Features

Book Title
Dead Man Upright
Number of Pages
224 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2012
Topic
Thrillers / Crime, Psychological, Mystery & Detective / Hard-Boiled, Mystery & Detective / Police Procedural, Crime
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Fiction
Author
Derek Raymond
Book Series
Factory 5 Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
7.4 Oz
Item Length
8.2 in
Item Width
5.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
20
Reviews
"A bizarre mixture of Chandleresque elegance. . . and naked brutality" - Dally Telegraph "Hellishly bleak and moving" - New Statesman "Raw-edged, strong and disturbing stuff" - The Scotsman, Praise for Derek Raymond's Factory Series "It's one of the darkest and most surrealistically hard-boiled things I've ever read. The detective is at least as scary as the murderers he's chasing." -William Gibson, bestselling author of Neuromancer "No one claiming interest in literature truly written from the edge of human experience, no one wondering at the limits of the crime novel and of literature itself, can overlook these extraordinary books." -James Sallis, author of Drive "The Factory novels are certainly the most viscerally imagined of their kind that I've ever read, or reread multiple times.  Derek Raymond wrote in a supposedly escapist genre in a manner that precluded any hope of escape." -Scott Phillips, bestselling author of The Ice Harvest "There remains no finer writing crime or otherwise about the state of Britain." -David Peace, author of "The Red Riding Quartet." "Carve Derek Raymond's name into the literary pantheon. He is one of the rare authors who seek to understand evil, ferret out the darkness in human nature, and blast Noir fiction out of the genre ghetto and into Literature. His nameless detective's quest through the bleak streets gets under your skin. Amazing, painful and brilliant." -Cara Black, bestselling author of Murder at the Lanterne Rouge "I Was Dora Suarez blew me away - beyond hard boiled." -Patton Oswalt "More Chandleresque than Chandler... [Raymond] could write beautifully...and, more importantly, what he is writing about in this novel are nothing less than the important subjects any writer can deal with: mortality and death." -Will Self "A bizarre mixture of Chandleresque elegance. . . and naked brutality" - Dally Telegraph "Hellishly bleak and moving" - New Statesman "Raw-edged, strong and disturbing stuff" - The Scotsman, "A bizarre mixture of Chandleresque elegance. . . and naked brutality" - Dally Telegraph "There remains no finer writing crime or otherwise about the state of Britain." -David Peace, author of "The Red Riding Quartet." "Hellishly bleak and moving" - New Statesman "Raw-edged, strong and disturbing stuff" - The Scotsman, Praise for Derek Raymond's Factory Series "Unrelenting existentialist noir--as if the most brutal of crime fictions had been recast by Sartre, Camus, or Ionesco while retaining something of the intimate wise-guy tone of Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett." --Joyce Carol Oates,  The New York Review of Books "It's one of the darkest and most surrealistically hard-boiled things I've ever read. The detective is at least as scary as the murderers he's chasing." --William Gibson, bestselling author of Neuromancer "No one claiming interest in literature truly written from the edge of human experience, no one wondering at the limits of the crime novel and of literature itself, can overlook these extraordinary books." --James Sallis, author of Drive "The Factory novels are certainly the most viscerally imagined of their kind that I've ever read, or reread multiple times.  Derek Raymond wrote in a supposedly escapist genre in a manner that precluded any hope of escape." --Scott Phillips, bestselling author of The Ice Harvest "There remains no finer writing - crime or otherwise - about the state of Britain." --David Peace, author of "The Red Riding Quartet." "Carve Derek Raymond's name into the literary pantheon. He is one of the rare authors who seek to understand evil, ferret out the darkness in human nature, and blast Noir fiction out of the genre ghetto and into Literature. His nameless detective's quest through the bleak streets gets under your skin. Amazing, painful and brilliant." --Cara Black, bestselling author of Murder at the Lanterne Rouge "I Was Dora Suarez blew me away - beyond hard boiled." --Patton Oswalt "More Chandleresque than Chandler... [Raymond] could write beautifully...and, more importantly, what he is writing about in this novel are nothing less than the important subjects any writer can deal with: mortality and death." --Will Self "A bizarre mixture of Chandleresque elegance... and naked brutality" -- The Daily Telegraph "I cannot think of another writer so obsessed with the skull beneath the skin." -- The Times (London) "A crackerjack of a crime novel, unafraid to face the reality of man's and woman's evil." -- Evening Standard "The beautiful, ruthless simplicity of the Factory novels is that Raymond rewrites the basic ethos of the classic detective novel." --Charles Taylor, The Nation "Hellishly bleak and moving." --New Statesman "These are dark, horrible and lovely." --Shakespeare & Co. Booksellers From the Trade Paperback edition., Praise for Derek Raymond's Factory Series "Unrelenting existentialist noir--as if the most brutal of crime fictions had been recast by Sartre, Camus, or Ionesco while retaining something of the intimate wise-guy tone of Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett." --Joyce Carol Oates, The New York Review of Books "It's one of the darkest and most surrealistically hard-boiled things I've ever read. The detective is at least as scary as the murderers he's chasing." --William Gibson, bestselling author of Neuromancer "No one claiming interest in literature truly written from the edge of human experience, no one wondering at the limits of the crime novel and of literature itself, can overlook these extraordinary books." --James Sallis, author of Drive "The Factory novels are certainly the most viscerally imagined of their kind that I've ever read, or reread multiple times. Derek Raymond wrote in a supposedly escapist genre in a manner that precluded any hope of escape." --Scott Phillips, bestselling author of The Ice Harvest "There remains no finer writing - crime or otherwise - about the state of Britain." --David Peace, author of "The Red Riding Quartet." "Carve Derek Raymond's name into the literary pantheon. He is one of the rare authors who seek to understand evil, ferret out the darkness in human nature, and blast Noir fiction out of the genre ghetto and into Literature. His nameless detective's quest through the bleak streets gets under your skin. Amazing, painful and brilliant." --Cara Black, bestselling author of Murder at the Lanterne Rouge "I Was Dora Suarez blew me away - beyond hard boiled." --Patton Oswalt "More Chandleresque than Chandler... [Raymond] could write beautifully...and, more importantly, what he is writing about in this novel are nothing less than the important subjects any writer can deal with: mortality and death." --Will Self "Pungently evokes the British underworld. As forceful as ever." -- Publishers Weekly "A bizarre mixture of Chandleresque elegance. . . and naked brutality" -- Dally Telegraph "Hellishly bleak and moving" -- New Statesman "Raw-edged, strong and disturbing stuff" --The Scotsman "For fans of Raymond's dark and compelling mystery fiction, this one is a must-read." --Booklist
Dewey Decimal
823.914
Synopsis
Never before available in the U.S., the final episode in the Factory Series is another unrelenting investigation with the nameless detective into the black soul of Thatcher's England. The fifth and final book in the author's acclaimed Factory Series was published just after Derek Raymond's death, and so didn't get the kind of adulatory attention the previous four titles in the series got. The book has been unavailable for so long that many of Derek Raymond's rabid fans aren't even aware there is a fifth book. But Dead Man Upright may be the most psychologically probing book in the series. Unlike the others, it's not so much an investigation into the identity of a killer, but a chase to catch him before he kills again. Meanwhile, the series' hero--the nameless Sargent from the "Unexplained Deaths" department--is facing more obstacles in the department, due to severe budget cutbacks, than he's ever faced before. However, this time, the Sargent knows the identity of the next victim of the serial killer in question. But even the Sargent's brutally blunt way of speaking can't convince the besotted victim, and he's got to convince a colleague to go against orders and join him in the attempt to catch the killer... before it's too late., The fifth and final book in Derek Raymond's acclaimed Factory series is, unlike the others, not so much an investigation into the identity of a killer, but a chase to catch him before he kills again. Meanwhile the series' hero - the nameless Sargent from the 'Unexplained Deaths' department - is facing more obstacles from his department than ever before. However, this time, the Sargent knows the identity of the next victim of the serial killer in question.

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