The belly laughs come thick and fast - my God, he is funny . . . and you will, I guarantee, zip merrily through it.An
entertaining exploration of madness.Ronson is
one of the finest comic writers working today.Ronson has a fine journalist's nose for sniffing out the most entertaining monsters to interview . . .
chirpy, inquisitive, funny.A
thoughtful and funny read.
A typical treat, a semi-sinister, half-hilarious trip into the dark side.
Thought-provoking, wry, incisive.Jon Ronson's screamingly funny and deeply disturbing classic exploration of psychopathy.
The Sunday Times bestseller – now with a new introduction and part of the Picador Collection
'The belly laughs come thick and fast' – The Observer
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What if society wasn't fundamentally rational, but was motivated by insanity? This thought sets Jon Ronson on an utterly compelling adventure into the world of madness.
Along the way, Jon meets psychopaths, those whose lives have been touched by madness and those whose job it is to diagnose it, including the influential psychologist who developed the Psychopath Test, from whom Jon learns the art of psychopath-spotting. A skill which seemingly reveals that madness could indeed be at the heart of everything . . .
Combining Jon's trademark humour, charm and investigative incision, The Psychopath Test is both entertaining and honest, unearthing dangerous truths and asking serious questions about how we define normality in a world where we are increasingly judged by our maddest edges.
Jon Ronson is an award-winning writer and documentary maker. He is the author of many bestselling books, including
So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed,
The Psychopath Test, Lost at Sea, The Men Who Stare at Goats and
Them: Adventures with Extremists. His acclaimed podcasts include
Things Fell Apart and
The Butterfly Effect, and he co-wrote the screenplays for the movies
Okja and
Frank. He lives in New York.
