Cannibal is a rare Sagawa book where he and another author discuss his case, as well as Fred West, Peter Sutcliffe, Ian Brady, and Andrei Chikatilo.

Issei Sagawa also known as Pang or the Kobe Cannibal, was a Japanese lust murderer, cannibal, and necrophiliac known for the killing of Renée Hartevelt in Paris in 1981. Sagawa murdered Hartevelt and then mutilated, cannibalized, and performed necrophilia on her corpse over several days.