The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks

Powerful, perverse, and engrossing, this controversial novel offers a graphic portrait of a serial killer told in the first-person. Read it if you dare!--The Daily Express. nThe polarizing literary debut by Scottish author Ian Banks, The Wasp Factory is the bizarre, imaginative, disturbing, and darkly comic look into the mind of a child psychopath.

nMeet Frank Cauldhame. Just sixteen, and unconventional to say the least: n nTwo years after I killed Blyth I murdered my young brother Paul, for quite different and more fundamental reasons than I'd disposed of Blyth, and then a year after that I did for my young cousin Esmerelda, more or less on a whim. n nThat's my score to date.

Three. I haven't killed anybody for years, and don't intend to ever again. n nIt was just a stage I was going through.n