> Also: Robin Cook (not to be confused with the writer with the same name, > involved with nurses, who is American and a second rate suspense writer) > Violent, cynical, somber with a style,construction and characters of his > own. A great writer who was denied recognition in the English/American > domain, even in his own country! AKA Derek Raymond, who's already been mentioned. I had great hopes for Raymond (Cook) when I first heard about him; I bought the four books in his "Factory" series at import prices (as well as non-series books _The Crust on its Uppers_ and _A State of Denmark_), and then read _He Died With His Eyes Open_ and could barely get through it. His writing style was stilted, and was littered with bizarre rhyming slang (I had to use the glossary in _The Crust on its Uppers_ to make any sense of it. I suspect that he made up alot of it.) The plot was pathetically thin. I'm not in a hurry to go any further. Jim Stephenson - # RARA-AVIS: To unsubscribe, say "unsubscribe rara-avis" # to majordomo@icomm.ca