Lone Wolf: True Stories of Spree Killers - Pan Pantziarka

Do you remember what you were doing on the 13th March 1996? I do, only too vividly. I was picking my 5 year old up from school. That day the hugs we gave our kids were extra special, they couldnt understand our tears but we did. We had watched with horror the news that Thomas Hamilton had walked into Dunblane Primary School and shot dead 16 children and 1 adult, another 17 were injured. Pan Pantziarka (hereafter referred to as Pan), discussed not only Thomas Hamilton but also notorious other spree killers such as Michael Ryan, Martin Bryant, Benjamin Smith and others. Pan devotes a whole chapter to 7 of the most notorious spree killers starting with ...  Read the complete review

I’m not interested in guns and I’ve always thought spree killers were the least interesting kind of psychopath, so this book wasn't preaching to the converted. Having read it, I can't say I’m one of the faithful yet but I think I’ve come as I close as I can to understanding what one of these massacres is like, short of actually being caught up in the real thing. And understanding that was a disturbing experience. Spilled brains and strewn viscera are not as unusual in modern life as we might like to think, because car-crashes supply copious quantities of them every day, but the difference with a spree killer is that he supplies ...  Read the complete review