By Joseph Kessel
Elliott & Thompson £20
When I told people that one of my first patients in prison was a man who had killed and dismembered three children and who now complained of a slight cough, they would ask how I could treat such a man.
It was the same question, in essence, as lawyers are asked about their defence of those whom they suspect to be guilty of the awful crime of which they have been accused.
But what of's intermittent bouts of excruciating abdominal pain.
