Sleep of Reason - Hardcover

Smith, D.J.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0712659234 ISBN 13: 9780712659239

Publisher: Random House UK, 1994

Synopsis

Written with full access to the documentary evidence, this book tells of the murder of a two-year-old by two ten-year-olds which horrified the nation. The murderers were captured on video leading their victim away from his mother, out of the shopping mall, to be killed shortly afterwards. His body was left on a railway line. The characteristically Liverpudlian display of grief that followed turned into mob violence. The crowd wanted to lynch the two ten-year-olds. Meanwhile, the police were faced with the delicate problem of interrogating such young people - the slightest slip-up could be disastrous - and the process began of finding out why this almost unimaginably horrible thing happened.

About this title

From the Author:

"It is as true now as it was then that the murder has never really been explained and the motive for the crime remains a mystery. This book, the result of considerable research and a painstaking, sometimes distressing assembly of the facts, was my attempt to offer some insight and understanding."

About the Author:

David James Smith was born in south London and has been a journalist all his working life. His definitive account of the James Bulger case, The Sleep of Reason, was first published in 1994 and then in an updated edition by Faber Finds in 2011. David wrote for Esquire before joining the Sunday Times Magazine, for whom he has travelled around the world writing cover stories, investigative articles, reportage and profiles. An article for the Magazine led to his second book, All About Jill: The Life and Death of Jill Dando (2002). The acclaimed Supper with the Crippens followed in 2005, then came One Morning in Sarajevo - 28 June 1914 (2008), a reconstruction of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. His most recent book is Young Mandela (2010).

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House UK
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0712659234
• ISBN 13: 9780712659239
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 240