He wields all sorts of impressive psychological tools to understand why Nilsen felt compelled to kill 15 young men between 19. Masters’ aim-to show us “something of the nature of madness”-is indeed true. Otherwise, one is left with little more than a prurient titillating of the imagination.” Faulting the true-crime genre for being “overwritten and often hysterical,” literary biographer Brian Masters suggests that this book will be worthwhile only to the extent that it “opens a window upon human behavior. “Killing for Company”-the story of Dennis Nilsen, contemporary Britain’s most notorious serial killer-is such a book. Some true-crime books, though, attempt to pump up the wattage like a parent shining a flashlight under a child’s bed, they aim to show us that real monsters exist only in our imagination.
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