The polarizing literary debut by Scottish author Ian Banks The Wasp Factory is the bizarre imaginative disturbing and darkly comic look into the mind of a child psychopath. Meet Frank Cauldhame. Just sixteen and unconventional to say the least: Two years after I killed Blyth I murdered my young brother Paul for quite different and more fundamental reasons than I d disposed of Blyth and then a year after that I did for my young cousin Esmerelda more or less on a whim. That s my score to date. Three. I haven t killed anybody for years and don t intend to ever again. It was just a stage I was going through.