The Book of Jeff: A Portrait of a Human Being

In 1994, Jeffrey Dahmer was baptised in a prison bathtub. Six months later, he was dead.Before that — there was a boy in Ohio with no language for what he was. A teenager who kept everything inside. A young man alone in an empty house, drunk, not wanting to be alone again. A man in an apartment with a fish tank and sleeping pills. A man in a courtroom, nodding at nine hundred and fifty-seven years.The Book of Jeff is not a true crime book. It is a portrait — rigorous, unflinching, built on primary sources and psychiatric science — of a human being the world decided was beyond understanding.It begins with Saint Paul on the road to Damascus. It ends with a question the reader must answer alone.The answer will surprise you. Read more