When a middle-aged alcoholic is found brutally battered to death on a roadside in West London, the case is assigned to a nameless detective sergeant, a tough-talking cynic and fearless loner from the Department of Unexplained Deaths at the Factory police station. Working from cassette tapes left behind in the dead man's property, our narrator must piece together the history of his blighted existence and discover the agents of its cruel end. What he doesn't expect is that digging for the truth will demand plenty of lying, and that the most terrible of villains will also prove to be the most attractive. In the first of six police procedurals that comprise the Factory series, Derek Raymond spins a riveting, and vividly human crime drama. Relentlessly pursuing justice for the dispossessed, his detective narrator treads where few others dare: in the darkest corners of London, a city of sin plagued by unemployment, racism and vice, and peopled by a cast of low-lifes, all utterly convincing and brought to life by Raymond's pitch-perfect dialogue.

• We started tracking this book on February 7, 2013.
• This book was £6.33 when we started tracking it.
• The price of this book has changed 23 times in the past 4,096 days.
• The current price of this book is £3.99 last checked 5 hours ago.
• This book is at its lowest price in the past six months.
• This lowest price this book has been offered at in the past year is £3.95.
• The lowest price to date was £3.95 last reached on May 1, 2020.
• This book has been £3.95 one time since we started tracking it.
• The highest price to date was £6.47 last reached on June 19, 2018.
• This book has been £6.47 3 times since we started tracking it.

• Crime, Thriller & MysteryMystery

• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• Lending: Disabled
• Print Length: 228 Pages
• File Size: 652 KB