Book description
Bobby is a 31-year-old man with the mind of a small, frightened boy. Mr
Summers is a gentle killer who can never be caught. Together they are
the most bizarre pair ever to take pity on the little animals - or plot
a savage execution...
First published in 1968, this frightening tale of human depravity and
violence has now been made into a film starring John Hurt and Christian
Bale. Walker Hamilton was born in 1934 at Airdrie, Lanarkshire. His
father was a coal-miner, and from him he inherited a love of books. He
left school at fifteen, and did general office work, studying
accountancy at evening classes, until his national service in the RAF,
most of which was spent in a military hospital in Scotland. He was
discharged on medical grounds after a severe illness. He then worked in
a Glasgow brewery, followed by a spell as an office-machine mechanic,
after which he had a variety of unskilled manual jobs. He married in
1960, and died in February 1968. This, his first novel, was first
published in 1968.
