Killing For Company by Brian Masters - ISBN: 9781787466258
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Inside a killer’s mind: fifteen overlooked victims, a horrifying truth.

Killing For Company

The No. 1 bestseller behind the ITV drama ‘Des’

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  • Paperback

    368 pages

  • Release Date

    17 November 2020

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Summary

Now the hit ITV true crime drama DES, starring David Tennant, and the follow-up documentary The Real ‘Des’

The definitive story of the Dennis Nilsen case featured in BBC’s The Nilsen Tapes, and the book behind ITV’s Des, starring David Tennant

WINNER OF THE GOLD DAGGER AWARD FOR CRIME NON-FICTION and THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

Dennis Nilsen, who died in May 2018, admitted to killing at least 15 people before his arrest in 1983. Thi…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781787466258
ISBN-10:1787466256
Author:Brian Masters
Publisher:Cornerstone
Imprint:Arrow Books Ltd
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:368
Release Date:17 November 2020
Weight:258g
Dimensions:197mm x 129mm x 25mm
What They're Saying

Critics Review

Brian Masters has given us a full, well-ordered, dispassionate account of Nilsen’s life and crimes

Brian Masters has given us a full, well-ordered, dispassionate account of Nilsen’s life and crimes * The Times *A comprehensive and compelling account * Financial Times *Brian Masters can rest assured that the job he undertook with such obvious doubts was one worth doing * Spectator *Probably the best thing of its kind since In Cold Blood…a classic study in criminal mentality * Yorkshire Post *Quite brilliant in its assimilation of the facts… Killing for Company is a book that needed to be written, and has been executed with extreme skill and good sense * Time Out *A seminal look into the criminal mind * Daily Mail *Simultaneously gripping and repellent… I feel confident that I will not read again in 1985 a more fascinating and repulsive tale, be it fact or fiction * Literary Review *The book is a perceptive and at times coldly brutal assessment of Nilsen’s psychology * Daily Mirror *An important book which screams to be read * New Statesman *A compelling and remarkable book… through Masters’ fine writing the reader suspends his nausea for the crimes, and concentrates with Nilsen on his motives and himself * The Listener *

About The Author

Brian Masters

Brian Masters has written over twenty books on subjects as diverse as French literature, the dukedoms in Great Britain, E.F. Benson and Marie Corelli. His groundbreaking study of mass murderer Dennis Nilsen, Killing for Company, won the Crime Writers’ Association Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction in 1985. He is also highly regarded for his journalism.

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