{"product_id":"the-wasp-factory-9780684853154","title":"The Wasp Factory","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Iain Banks\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Simon \u0026amp; Schuster\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Simon \u0026amp; Schuster\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Horror - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe polarizing literary debut by Scottish author Ian Banks, \u003ci\u003eThe Wasp Factory\u003c\/i\u003e is the bizarre, imaginative, disturbing, and darkly comic look into the mind of a child psychopath.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMeet Frank Cauldhame. Just sixteen, and unconventional to say the least: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTwo years after I killed Blyth I murdered my young brother Paul, for quite different and more fundamental reasons than I'd disposed of Blyth, and then a year after that I did for my young cousin Esmerelda, more or less on a whim. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThat's my score to date. Three. I haven't killed anybody for years, and don't intend to ever again. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt was just a stage I was going through.","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45117976150167,"sku":"9780684853154","price":1148.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780684853154.webp?v=1767273862","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-wasp-factory-9780684853154","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}