Order of Assassins

An examination of the motives for murder from the bestselling author of The Outsider —“Colin Wilson puts the Manson murders in coldly sharp perspective” ( Evening Standard ).   Why is the “motiveless” murder an increasing phenomenon today? What is the mentality behind the Manson massacres and other shocking cases of brutal killing—too frequent to be written off as isolated cases? In his penetrating exploration of murder, Colin Wilson suggests that the apparently meaningless violence so frig