The Wasp Factory is a bizarre, imaginative, disturbing, and darkly comic look into the mind of a child psychopath - one of the most infamous of contemporary Scottish novels. \'Two years after I killed Blyth I murdered my young brother Paul, for quite different reasons than I\'d disposed of Blyth, and then a year after that I did for my young cousin Esmerelda, more or less on a whim. That\'s my score to date. Three. I haven\'t killed anybody for years, and don\'t intend to ever again. It was just a stage I was going through.\' Enter - if you can bear it - the extraordinary private world of Frank, just sixteen, and unconventional, to say the least.