STAR ISBN: 978 0 9568038 6 3 PUBLICATION: 28th MAY 2013 ISBN 978-0-9568038-6-3 DEATH by DIOR 9 780956 803863 Terry Cooper Death by Dior is a fascinating, detailed, dark documentary tale of a young man’s almost unwitting adventures in the world of high fashion, Satanism, Nazi intrigue, incest, homosexuality, and murder. It exposes the vice and madness lurking in the soft underbelly of the pathetic British Nazi mummies’ boys, the true story of impoverished elements of French aristocratic society and of Normandy’s declining rural life. Cooper has written with candour, as he wants to ‘put the record straight’; in so doing he drolely portrays a very British sang froid, along with an extraordinary ability to survive apparently unscathed by his own none too innocent participation in this devilish tale. Terence Robert Cooper was born one foggy October day in the Borough of Dagenham, on the banks of the polluted Thames. He was an ordinary submissive working class schoolboy until he was 12 years old, when a “near death experience” changed his entire attitude towards life. He had contracted Hepatitis A and had been given up as lost by the doctors when he realised life was meant to be lived to the full. On his recovery, and well in advance of his time, he quickly became a rebel against conformity, formulating his personal motto, “In the kingdom of the blind, the one eyed is quickly put to death because he is different.” A whole series of unforeseen events was to lead him into a parallel world of Nazism, aristocracy, millionaires and mystics, where he was able to adapt himself to situations which he had never dreamt existed while he was a schoolboy in Dagenham. Price: £10.99 Binding: Paperback Format: 200 x 130 mm Extent: 280pp Illustrations: 16pp mono photographs BIC Code: BM: Memoir Prices and specifications are provisional and are subject to change without notice. 11/03/2012 Mastering the language which he once detested at school he has now lived in France for 44 years, marrying a Belgian woman at the late age of 33 and recently becoming a grandfather, “the last step before the old folks’ home.” Still refusing to accept conformity, Terry continues a clandestine life of wild adventures. Sales: Star Book Sales T: 0845 156 7082 F: 01404 823 820 enquiries@starbooksales.com Orders: Orca Book Services Ltd. T: 01235 465521 F: 01235 465555 tradeorders@orcabookservices.co.uk