Death by Dior

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. 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.