Dimensions
156 x 235 x 25mm
The Shocking True Story of America's Youngest Serial Killer.
A monster preyed upon the children of nineteenth-century Boston. His crimes were appalling - and yet he was little more than a child himself.
When fourteen-year-old Jesse Pomeroy was arrested in 1874, a nightmarish reign of terror over an unsuspecting city came to an end. "The Boston Boy Fiend" was imprisoned at last. But the complex questions sparked by his ghastly crime spree - the hows and whys of vicious juvenile crime - were as relevant in the so-called Age of Innocence as they are today.
Jesse Pomeroy was outwardly repellent in appearance, with a gruesome "dead" eye; inside, he was deformed beyond imagining. A sexual sadist of disturbing precocity, he satisfied his atrocious appetites by abducting and torturing his child victims. But soon, the teenager's bloodlust gave way to another obsession: murder.
Harold Schechter, brings his acclaimed mix of page-turning storytelling, brilliant insight, and fascinating historical documentation to 'Fiend' - an unforgettable account from the annals of American crime.
