Devil Incarnate: A Depraved Mercenary's Lifelong Swathe of Destruction

By Wayne Thallon

Athol Visser, or "Ivan the Terrible," is a ruthless torture technician who has maimed and murdered his way around the globe, killing his first victim at 16 and his last at 60, and working in between... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845962060
• ISBN13: 9781845962067
• Release Date: September 2007
• Publisher: Mainstream Publishing
• Length: 302 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.9" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

Gritty but compelling!

I first saw this book serialized in the UK's `News of the World,' and it did put shivers up my spine, not least because I was at the anti apartheid protest in Glasgow when he tried to bomb it, but also for how he's subsequently been portrayed in the media. On reading the book however, I'm now left slightly unnerved, simply because I feel like I've got to know, and understand, someone who was potentially my murderer. Beyond that though, what really struck me was Athol's obvious intellect, as for as evil as he is - and he is evil, his capacity for introspection and logic is second only to his capacity for violence. This book will be offensive to many. While hated by others. And there's no doubt an argument against giving such a man a public voice. But, like the way his life has unfolded, there's no denying that the book's as gripping as it is insightful, and for that I'd recommend it to anyone who likes `reading on the edge.'