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Nightmare
With shades of an erotic Jack the Ripper, Nightmare is the story of an African physician, set against the backdrop of race relations in the UK in the '50s. Dr. Patterson first witnesses and intervenes against whites out to committ acts of barbarity against women, then, when he finds himself on trial despite the station, feels the pressures of race and anger building up ins...more
Paperback, 132 pages
Published
June 26th 2005
by Olympiapress.com
(first published July 1960)
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Vivid, gritty and unashamedly barbaric, this book shows the best and worst of humanity as individuals and as a mob. It begins with Dr Patterson intervening in a mob attack on two coloured men by a group of white youths. In doing so he is attacked and humiliated and to top it off during the trial of four of the attackers, he is made out to be the aggressor as a 'key' witness steps forward with an alternative to reality. And so begins Dr Patterson's descent into rape and murder, driven by his o...more
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