Stuart Shorter

Stuart Shorter ‘Stuart Shorter, thief, hostage taker, psycho and sociopath street raconteur, my spy on how the British chaotic underclass spend their troubled days at the beginning of the 21st century: a man with an important life.’ Chapter 0.

This is how the book introduces its subject — Chapter 0. Stuart Shorter was a homeless man Alexander Masters met while campaigning for two charity workers who had been jailed. Over the next few years the two became friends, and Stuart became the subject of the biography that would tell his story in reverse, peeling back the layers of a chaotic adult life to find the boy underneath.