Taking Lives

Martin Arkenhout found his true calling on a lonely Florida highway -- with a sharp rock to the skull of an injured friend. He didn't just take the boy's life; he went on to live it. When that life became too risky, he found another, and another, changing his name, papers and style at will, until he chose the wrong life -- a scholarly thief on the run from the determined and troubled John Costa. The two men will meet, and there will be murder. But there is something much worse: the sweet seduction of taking another's life to be your own. Chillingly suspenseful, brilliantly executed and truly disturbing,Taking Livesis an entertainment to make you think and shiver. From the Trade Paperback edition.

Novelist, historian, journalist, and broadcaster Michael Pye is the author of ten other books including <b>The Drowning Room</b> and <b>Taking Lives</b>, soon to be a major motion picture starring Angelina Jolie. He is currently at work on his next novel.