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Taking Lives

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Item specifics

Condition
Like New: A book in excellent condition. Cover is shiny and undamaged, and the dust jacket is ...
ISBN
9780375402609

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0375402608
ISBN-13
9780375402609
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1086955

Product Key Features

Book Title
Taking Lives
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Psychological, Thrillers / General, Crime, Thrillers / Suspense, General, Mystery & Detective / General, Mystery & Detective / Private Investigators
Publication Year
1999
Genre
Fiction
Author
Michael Pye
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
1.2 in
Item Weight
23.5 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.2 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
98-028256
Reviews
"It's a pity Alfred Hitchcock isn't around . . . Dazzling . . . tough as nails, and superbly constructed . . . This is about as good as literary thrillers get." --Kirkus Reviews "Pye is a writer with a remarkable eye and a fresh, vigorous style . . . Scenes leap to life . . . Exquisitely rendered." --Publishers Weekly
Dewey Edition
21
Dewey Decimal
FIC
Synopsis
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 yound 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 brilliantly 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. With exhilarating apeed and psychological suspense, the plot of this extraordinary novel drives to its startling conclusion.
LC Classification Number
PR6066.Y4T35 1999

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