- Mass Market Paperback: 336 pages
- Publisher: True Crime; 2nd Revised edition edition (4 April 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0753506173
- ISBN-13: 978-0753506172
- Product Dimensions: 17.7 x 10.8 x 1.9 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 63,536 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Cases of lone killers embarking on slaughter sprees have occurred with frightening regularity since the late 1980s. People like Michael Ryan, Thomas Hamilton, Martin Bryant and Oklahoma bomber Timothy McVeigh. What drives these men - and it is always men - to turn on friends, family and strangers in acts of senseless rage and slaughter? In the wake of the summer of 1999, in which four incidents of spree killing shocked the world, this is a look at a chilling new trend of brutal and indiscriminate killing that blights our "civilized" society.
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Pan Pantziarka is an established and popular author who has received literary awards for his writing.
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Not only the best of Virgin's true crime titles I've read, but one of the best true crime titles I've read from any publisher. Partly because it can happen anywhere and to anyone, spree-killing is among the most disturbing of all crimes, but the author's calm, intelligent and dispassionate analysis helped me to come away from this book with a much better understanding of both what causes it and what may help prevent it becoming more common in the future. Like all crime, spree-killing is part of wider political and cultural phenomena and this book is also very useful as an examination of the extreme right-wing and racist ideologies that so often inform the murderous rage of spree-killers. Don't read it if you want voyeurism or sensationalism, because you won't find either here, read it if you want to understand and even, perhaps, to pity: like serial killers, these men aren't any kind of counter-cultural hero, but they're not simply monsters either.
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