A man reinvents himself by killing and assuming the identity of his victims--along with their credit cards. Martin Arkenhout, a 17-year-old Dutch exchange student, gets the idea in Florida after mercy-killing a youth in a hit-and-run accident. The scheme unravels when he murders an art thief, trailed by an investigator.
"A man reinvents himself by killing and assuming the identity of his victims--along with their credit cards. Martin Arkenhout, a 17-year-old Dutch exchange student, gets the idea in Florida after mercy-killing a youth in a hit-and-run accident. The scheme unravels when he murders an art thief, trailed by an investigator."@en
"A man reinvents himself by killing and assuming the identity of his victims--along with their credit cards. Martin Arkenhout, a 17-year-old Dutch exchange student, gets the idea in Florida after mercy-killing a youth in a hit-and-run accident. The scheme unravels when he murders an art thief, trailed by an investigator."
"Martin Arkenhout found his true calling on a lonely Florida highway -- with a sharp rock to the skull of an injured friend. He didn't just take the boy's life; he went on to live it. When that life became too risky, he found another, and another, changing his name, papers and style at will, until he chose the wrong life -- a scholarly thief on the run from the determined and troubled John Costa. The two men will meet, and there will be murder. But there is something much worse: the sweet seduction of taking another's life to be your own. Chillingly suspenseful, brilliantly executed and truly disturbing, Taking Lives is an entertainment to make you think and shiver."@en
"A man who kills in order to take on other people's lives, is becoming desperate. He's becoming very interesting to the police, so he retreats to the incongruous peace of the Portuguese forest. His exhilirating, terrifying game of death and fantasy seems at end on an apocalyptic night of fire, but for the survivors, the horror has only just begun."@en
"A young serial killer takes on the identities of his victims, thinking he could live their lives better than they did.--"
"Dans le car où Martin Arkenhout, lycéen hollandais de dix-huit ans, est monté pour rejoindre sa famille d'accueil en Floride, tous s'ennuient. Son voisin, Seth Goodman qui se rend à New York, lui propose d'effectuer le trajet en voiture. Mais Seth est blessé par un chauffard qui s'enfuit. Martin décide d'achever son compagnon. Commence alors pour Martin une série de meurtres à travers le monde..."
"Een Nederlandse student verblijft in de Verenigde Staten wanneer een studiegenoot verongelukt en hij op het idee komt diens identiteit over te nemen."
"A riveting psychological novel about a young serial killer who takes on the identities of his victims. The first one he didn't really have to kill. The young college-bound kid had been hit by a car. He was almost, if not already, dead when Martin Arkenhout smashed his head with a stone. With this chilling opening scene, Michael Pye begins a daring and suspenseful novel about the fragile borders that define who we are and the hidden desire in each of us to reinvent ourselves. When Arkenhout can no longer maintain the identity of his first victim, he takes another. Then another. He thinks he can live their lives better than they do, and he continues the pattern until he happens to choose the wrong victim and his secret begins to unravel. We are taken from New York to the Bahamas to Amsterdam, and finally to Portugal, where Arkenhout (now living the life of one Professor Christopher Hart) is eventually tracked down by the story's narrator, John Costa, who is in pursuit of the real Hart because of a theft he committed. Costa has his own set of troubling circumstances: a failing marriage, the slow uncovering of his tormented family history, and a growing desire to leave it all behind by tasting Arkenhout's brand of dangerous freedom."@en
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