Amazon.co.uk Review
"Two boys ride the bus through Florida. One of them won't be alive much longer." With this simple and unforgettable opening hook, Michael Pye establishes himself as a gripping thriller writer. (He has previously written historical novels and a history of New York.) The boys on the bus are Seth Goodman, an all-American innocent, and a 17-year-old Dutch youth called Martin Arkenhout. Almost by accident, Arkenhout discovers that he has a genius for taking lives: not just killing people -- although he is pretty proficient at that too -- but also appropriating their entire identities, submersing himself in them, and becoming them.
Narrated in an edgy, nerve-jangling present tense throughout, Arkenhout moves from victim to victim, re-inventing himself in the most radical and absolute way imaginable, until finally he picks the wrong victim: a seemingly mild-mannered art historian called Christopher Hart, who seems like a safe choice and turns out to be anything but. Add this to Taking Lives' irresistible claim--"This book is a work of fiction. The criminal who inspired it is still at large"--and you have a very superior thriller. Fans of Ruth Rendell, Thomas Harris or Michael Dibdin won't be disappointed. --James Goldman
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MIRROR (116-22 April)
'[a] sparse, haunting tale...Quietly chilling.'
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