In for the kill
Subtitle: a true story of hunting evil
By: C.J. Hart
Publisher: Mainstream
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9781780575636; 9781780574356
Subjects: Investigative reporting; Crime
Description: A childhood which saw her abandoned on the doorstep of a convent and then abused by her adoptive parents left Christine Hart vulnerable and desperate to find somewhere that she belonged. A quest to trace her real father led her along a confused and complex path to the prison cell of the notorious Moors murderer Ian Brady, and thereafter to a life of espionage and subterfuge. Christine worked undercover for the British security services and then for a series of national newspapers. She got to the core of notorious terrorist groups and witnessed first-hand the nefarious methods for which the UK media were to be vilified. Her continuing fascination with evil then drew her into the web of Los Angeles serial killer Ken Bianchi - the notorious Hillside Strangler. In "For the Kill" is the remarkable, absorbing and sometimes shocking story of the author's search for her own identity - a quest that has taken her into the very heart of darkness.
Table of contents: title: Christine Hart's childhood was one of loneliness. A quest for her real father led her to the prison cell of the notorious Moors murderer Ian Brady and thereafter to a life of espionage and subterfuge with the British security services and then the more salubrious London-based newspapers. Along the way she was to witness the underhand methods for which the UK media were to be publicly vilified. Hart exclusively reveals just how these 'investigations' were carried out and how her inner uncertainties drew her like a moth to the flame into the murderous world of the Real IRA, UDA and, ultimately, into the web of Los Angeles serial killer Ken Bianchi; title: the notorious Hillside Strangler.