The book grew out of the introduction I did for Brady's Gates of Janus. I knew that the writing in that introduction had a better than average chance of being read by people involved in Brady's life - parents of victims, police, Brady himself.

His books are often first person narratives taking on the point of view of the sexual predator in order to explore sadistic and pedophilic sexual impulses. In his books Sotos examines sadistic sexual criminals and sexually violent pornography particularly involving children. Peter Sotos (born April 17 1960 in Chicago) is an American writer and musician.