Face to Face with Evil: Conversations with Ian Brady

Dr Chris Cowley has been corresponding with moors murderer Ian Brady for six years, and has interviewed him extensively on several visits to Ashworth maximum security hospital in Liverpool. With the removal of a high court gagging order this insightful book includes extracts from over 50 letters written by Ian Brady to Dr Cowley plus details from interview transcripts. Face to Face with Evil is an unflinchingly detailed and highly emotional account of what it was like to be caught, tried and convicted of serial murder. An in-depth look at Brady's relationships with other notorious murderers during his incarceration, including his thoughts and emotions concerning Myra Hindley at the time of their arrest, throughout their prison sentences and at her death. As Brady moves into his eighth year on hunger strike this book reveals his thoughts, emotions and actions in relation to his victims and their survivors.