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My Life with Murderers
- Behind Bars with the World's Most Violent Men
- Narrated by: David Wilson
- Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
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Professor David Wilson has spent his professional life working with violent men - especially men who have committed murder. Aged 29 he became, at that time, the UK's youngest ever prison governor in charge of a jail, and his career since then has seen him sat across a table with all sorts of killers: sometimes in a tense interview; sometimes sharing a cup of tea (or something a little stronger); sometimes looking them in the eye to tell them that they are psychopaths.
Some of these men became David's friends; others would still love to kill him.
My Life with Murderers tells the story of David's journey from idealistic prison governor to expert criminologist and professor. With experience unlike any other, David's story is a fascinating and compelling study of human nature.
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- Helena Deakin
- 23-06-21
Enjoyable listening
I could listen to Prof David Wilson's voice all day long. This book was told from Prof Wilson's experience, so it is a bit of a biography, the look inside murderer's minds and the also into the prison system . All in all I enjoyed this book and have found it informative.
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- Julia_M
- 25-08-20
Brilliant!
Absolutely loved this book, so interesting. I listened to it all in 2 days!
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- Alan Everitt
- 12-06-20
Truly Excellent.
Truly excellent. Riveting, humane and very wise indeed,
David should be Home Secretary for life
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- tjdud
- 28-04-19
Highly recommended
Fascinating book. Thank you for sharing your expertise. Look forward to any other books on this subject.
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- sandra taylor
- 15-03-24
great facts
the fact that it is all real and not made up makes it really good listening, David Wilson has a really great voice so it is easy to listen to. he goes into great detail about his time as a prison governor, give this book a listen well worth it.
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- VikkiRoberts
- 27-03-19
Five stars professional memoir
A brilliant account of Prof Wilson’s career from prison governor to one of the UK’s leading voices in criminology. Prof Wilson is an expert narrator and explains difficult concepts and theories of criminal behaviour so that the reader is not bamboozled with science, rather it will spur you to dig deeper and there is an excellent large list of recommended further reading, most of which he is too modest to say all his books although he mentions a couple. Read by professor David Wilson you will want to listen in one go!
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- Ann D
- 14-07-20
Well researched, Informative and Entertaining!
As a Psychologist who works in a different field to David Wilson, I really enjoyed this book. It is well researched and well referenced. Wilson lists references at the end of the book, according to different aspects of criminology and levels of interest. Which is helpful. The accounts of his work are fascinating and his narration is extremely good (by no means is this commonly the case when writers narrate their own audiobooks). I found this book compelling and entertaining, and have no hesitation in recommending it to others.
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- Amazon Customer
- 12-07-19
Superb...
I thoroughly enjoyed listening to the wonderful David Wilson. So many interesting, and some what disturbing stories are shared within this book. I definitely recommend this to anybody who enjoys learning about criminology and profiling.
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- Barnze
- 27-04-19
Brilliant
A peek behind the scenes of the prison system and a look around the minds of some of the most shocking killers.
well written and narrated.
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- Carlton
- 15-08-19
Excellent.
Such an intelligent and interesting man. Each chapter follows a theme. Some vile stuff in here, be warned. Recording wise it can be odd, at points his voice just changes. Does not detract though. Buy it.
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