Jeff Lindsay

I know a lot of law officers, and every single one of them faces a moment - usually after about three hours on the job - when they realise that there's no connection between law and justice.

What my research told me is that a psychopath cannot change. You're born like that.

We're predators; we don't eat meat because it's handy, we eat meat because we have a taste for blood.

My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant.

In early 1993, when I was 12, I was separated from my family as the Sierra Leone civil war, which began two years earlier, came into my life.

If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!