Taking Lives

Taking Lives

by Michael Pye (Author)

Synopsis

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.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 384
Edition: Media tie-in
Publisher: Phoenix
Published: 17 Mar 2004

ISBN 10: 0753820234
ISBN 13: 9780753820230
Book Overview: UK FILM RELEASE 24 MARCH 2004. STARRING ANGELINA JOLIE, ETHAN HAWKE AND KIEFER SUTHERLAND TO PROMOTE ALONGSIDE WARNER BROS UK 'Icy, accomplished thriller... A plot which Patricia Highsmith would have been proud to own. Pye does it ample and inventive justice, setting out his stall calmly, persuasively and with total authority' Literary Review 'Its spare, spiky style and utter ruthlessness, take your breath away.' Time Out 'Tough as nails, and superbly constructed, with a lingering bitter aftertaste. This is about as good as a literary thriller gets' Kirkus

Media Reviews
'[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)
Author Bio
Novelist, historian, journalist and broadcaster, Michael Pye is the author of nine other books including The Drowning Room. He lives near Coimbra, Portugal