Taking Lives by Michael Pye
Martin Arkenhout, a seventeen-year-old Dutchman travelling across the States, kills his young American travelling companion, Seth Goodman, and adopts his identity. Some months later he takes - and takes on - other lives, adopting another passport, set of credit cards and identity. A decade and many lives later, now back in the Netherlands, he kills and becomes a young British art historian, Christopher Hart, and follows his plans to go to Portugal. But Christopher is being followed from London by Costas, another art historian, investigating the disappearance of a series of valuable prints from a priceless book, and before he leaves the Netherlands, Martin runs into his own mother on a tram. In the confusion of the moment he identifies himself as Hart, and for the first time Martin's series of seamless killings and identities runs into trouble.
'[a] sparse, haunting tale..Quietly chilling.' MIRROR (16-22 April) 'Michael Pye's thriller is spikily intelligent, inventive and stylish.' -- Tracey Lawson SCOTSMAN (8.5.04)
Novelist, historian, journalist and broadcaster, Michael Pye is the author of nine other books including The Drowning Room. He lives near Coimbra, Portugal
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| ISBN 13 | 9780753820230 |
| ISBN 10 | 0753820234 |
| Title | Taking Lives |
| Author | Michael Pye |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Orion Publishing Co |
| Year published | 2004-03-17 |
| Number of pages | 384 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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