by Michael Pye (Author)
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 the 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...
Format: Paperback
Pages: 384
Edition: New
Publisher: Phoenix
Published: 01 Oct 1999
ISBN 10: 0753807661
ISBN 13: 9780753807668
Book Overview: Film rights optioned by Warners for USD1 million A literary thriller, combining the pleasures of plot and characters, violence and psychological darkness, in the tradition of such writers as John Lanchester, Peter Hoeg, Barbara Vine, Donna Tartt, and Patricia Highsmith The critics on Michael Pye: 'Pye's writing is as precise as a Dutch painting, and filled with the same unearthly, almost surreal light. Hypnotic, powerful and absorbing' The Times 'Tightly crafted, meticulously researched, Pye's recreation of life in this hellish colonial outpost is gripping' Sunday Telegraph.