{"product_id":"steel-and-shadow-liam-lomasney-9798233976322","title":"Steel and Shadow: The Dnipropetrovsk Murders and the Dawn of Digital Nihilism","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSteel and Shadow: The Dnipropetrovsk Murders and the Dawn of Digital Nihilism\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the summer of 2007, three teenagers from the Ukrainian city of Dnipropetrovsk committed twenty-one murders in three weeks, targeting the elderly, the vulnerable, and children with a carpenter's hammer carried in a yellow plastic bag. They filmed their crimes. One video, the killing of forty-eight-year-old cancer survivor Sergei Yatzenko, circulated globally and continues to circulate today, making the case one of the most disturbing criminal episodes of the digital age.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSteel and Shadow\u003c\/em\u003e is not simply a true crime account of what happened. It is a forensic examination of why it happened, tracing the psychological development of the perpetrators through the institutional wreckage of post-Soviet Ukraine, analysing the role of internet gore culture and deliberate desensitisation in dismantling normal human inhibition, and centring, always, the twenty-one lives that the summer consumed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on criminological research, social psychology, and the detailed record of the investigation and trial, Irish crime writer Liam Lomasney constructs a meticulous, morally serious account of a case that forced criminologists to propose an entirely new typology of serial violence: the digital nihilist killer, whose primary motive is not sex, money, or politics, but the creation of a permanent violent legacy in the only medium that guarantees permanence, the internet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Liam Lomasney\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798233976322\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Silverback Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/05\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 200\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.52lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.46d","brand":"Liam Lomasney","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48874598662399,"sku":"9798233976322","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/steel-and-shadow-liam-lomasney-9798233976322","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}