The most authoritative and comprehensive investigation into the life and crimes of Josef Fritzl, who engineered one of the most elaborate and disturbing cases of abuse in modern times. Based on 150 new interviews with Fritzl's neighbours, colleagues, people who knew him and those involved in exposing his crimes.

On 28 August 1984, Josef Fritzl, drugged his teenage daughter with ether and imprisoned her in an underground bunker, behind eight locked doors. Over the following twenty-four years, he raped and abused her, never letting her or the children she bore him out of the dark, windowless cellar. This account investigates the meticulous planning, the chilling confessions and the disturbing personality that lie behind this horrific case of abuse.

Author Biography

Allan Hall was a New York correspondent for ten years, first for The Sun and later for the Daily Mirror. He co-founded the Big Apple News media agency and has covered German-speaking Europe for the last eight years for newspapers including several encyclopedias of crime. He lives and works in Berlin.