His beginnings were from a darkness beyond clear memory, snatches of understanding coming to him only gradually, over the years - in periodic dreams, or more usually in nightmares. What he did recall very vividly however, were the childhood assaults and traumas, and the beatings that were to make him the man he would turn out to be - a wandering man; on the face of it, a plausible smiling man, but in reality, an unpredictable and highly dangerous...