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Taking livesMichael Pye

Taking lives

1999370 pages
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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…

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Editions

5 editions
  • Paperback · English · 2004
    Vintage · 304 pages · 9781400075737
  • Paperback · English · 2004
    Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ) · 384 pages · 9780753820230
  • Other · English · 1999
    Phoenix House · 370 pages · 9781861591098
  • Other · English · 1999
    Thorndike Press · 535 pages · 9780786220960
  • Other · English · 1999
    A.A. Knopf · 295 pages · 9780375402609
Impostors and impostureFictionSerial murderersYoung menIdentity (Psychology)ImpersonationMurderFiction, suspense