"The Wasp Factory" is the shocking book that established Iain Banks as one of the most important representatives of contemporary British cult literature. Enter, if you dare, the strange world of sixteen-year-old Frank and see through his eyes. "Two years after I killed Blyth, I murdered my little brother Paul for entirely different and certainly more serious reasons, and a year after Paul I killed my little cousin Esmeralda, probably out of sheer caprice and without reason. That's my score to date. Three. I haven't killed anyone else for years and I don't intend to kill again in the future. It was just a phase I was going through."