This book succeeds at two levels. The first is as a well documented and thoughtfully argued critique of how the media, over the last 48 years, have inadvertently contributed to the escalating number of lone actor mass killings. It then makes clear how the media can stop being part of the problem and become part of the solution. The second element is a masterly account of lone actor mass killers which could stand alone as a first rate piece of journalism, in addition to illustrating the book's central theme. Professor Paul Mullen, forensic psychiatrist and author of Running Amok: Inside the Mind of the Lone Mass Killer
This excellent book is a must-read for journalists, and especially for anyone in the media reporting on mass murder. It comes with a timely, authoritative and critical message Change the story, change the crime, a message that must be heeded if the horrific spread of random mass killings, which has impacted too many of our lives in recent decades, is to be reversed. Mick North, father of a victim of the Dunblane Primary School massacre and author of Dunblane: Never Forget
