On February 9th 1983 Dennis Nilsen was arrested at his Muswell Hill home, after human remains had been identified as the cause of blocked drains. Within days he had confessed to fifteen gruesome murders over a period of four years. His victims, all young homosexual men, had never been reported missing. Brian Masters, with Nilsen's full cooperation, has produced a unique study of a serial killer's mind, revealing the disturbing psychology of a mass murderer.

An extraordinary analysis into the mind of a notorious killer which set the standard in true crime writing.________________________________________AN UNSPEAKABLE CRIMEWhen he was arrested in July 1991, Jeffrey Dahmer had a severed head in the refrigerator, two more in the freezer, two skulls and a skeleton in a filing cabinet.A DEPRIVED ACTBut if anything could be more disturbing than the brute horror...

Born of a preoccupation with saints and sinners, The Evil That Men Do is Brian Masters' investigation into the nature of good and evil, and the different ways in which they can be manifested. It examines the fundamental questions of why we are as we are: why we are good, why we care for one another, why we can be altruistic and kind as well as selfish and cruel.According to science, we are prisoners of our genetic inheritance. Are our impulses therefore to some extent inescapable, ...

NOW AN ITV DRAMA DES STARRING DAVID TENNANTOn 9 February 1983, Dennis Nilsen was arrested at his Muswell Hill home, after human remains had been identified as the cause of the street’s blocked drains. Within days he had confessed to fifteen gruesome murders committed over a period of four years. His victims, all young homosexual men, had never been missed. Brian Masters, with Nilsen’s full cooperation, has produced a unique account of the murderer’s mind. Killing for Company is a g...