Brian Masters has written over twenty books on subjects as diverse as French literature, the dukedoms in Great Britain, E.F. Benson and Marie Corelli. His groundbreaking study of mass murderer Dennis Nilsen, Killing for Company, won the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction in 1985. He is also highly regarded for his journalism.
Without any doubt one of the most remarkable, complete and most humanely informative accounts of a murderer's mind ever achieved... the book is far superior to any previous English book of its kind and deserves to serve as a model for all future attempts in this genre * New Society * A compelling and remarkable book... through Masters' fine writing the reader suspends his nausea for the crimes, and concentrates with Nilsen on his motives and himself * The Listener * The book is a perceptive and at times coldly brutal assessment of Nilsen's psychology * Daily Mirror * Simultaneously gripping and repellent... I feel confident that I will not read again in 1985 a more fascinating and repulsive tale, be it fact or fiction * Literary Review * A seminal look into the criminal mind * Daily Mail * Quite brilliant in its assimilation of the facts... Killing for Company is a book that needed to be written, and has been executed with extreme skill and good sense * Time Out * Brian Masters can rest assured that the job he undertook with such obvious doubts was one worth doing * Spectator * An important book which screams to be read * New Statesman * A comprehensive and compelling account * Financial Times * Brian Masters has given us a full, well-ordered, dispassionate account of Nilsen's life and crimes * The Times *