Taking Lives

Martin Arkenhout, a young student from Holland, is taking a break from his studies to explore the United States and beyond. Tall, skinny, and somewhat unsure of his new surroundings, Arkenhout looks and acts like any other tr aveler. But this 17-year-old is no innocent abroad. He takes the concept of enriching one's life through travel to a terrifying new level, and gets hi s kicks from murdering various strangers along the way. What makes these ki llings even more grotesque is the fact that Arkenhout steals the identities of his victims in an attempt to displace his own persona. This perversity allows him to "invent himself" whenever the urge strikes. Yet one personali ty is harder to maintain then all the others--that of Professor Christopher Hart, who was an art teacher with a special affection for Dutch art and, a pparently, a love for valuable manuscripts. The theft of one such manuscrip t gained the special attention of a private investigator, John Costa. Marti n Arkenhout must now pay his own price for the professor's purported crime, and is hotly pursued across the globe. Taking Lives is a bizarre masquerade ball where nothing is as it seems, and every character has a hidden past. The final reprise of this deranged dance reaches a brilliant crescendo, and keeps us hanging on until the very last, and very shocking, note. --Naomi Gesinger.

Product Info

ISBN: 0753820234

ISBN-13: 9780753820230

Publisher: Orion Publishing Group, Limi

Year: 2004

Type: Used

Binding: Softcover

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