{"product_id":"steel-and-shadow-the-dnipropetrovsk-murders-and-the-dawn-of-digital-nihilism-paperback","title":"Steel and Shadow: The Dnipropetrovsk Murders and the Dawn of Digital Nihilism - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLiam Lomasney\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 200\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.46 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 05, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56320915603761,"sku":"9798233976322","price":21.58,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1004\/9532\/7537\/files\/yM6v4uUK029798233976322.webp?v=1789647084","url":"https:\/\/mitchellofficial.com\/products\/steel-and-shadow-the-dnipropetrovsk-murders-and-the-dawn-of-digital-nihilism-paperback","provider":"MITCHELL","version":"1.0","type":"link"}