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Taking livesMichael Pye
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Taking lives

370 pagesFirst published 19995 editions
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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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FormatPublisherYearPagesISBN
PaperbackVintage20043049781400075737
PaperbackPhoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )20043849780753820230
EditionPhoenix House19993709781861591098
EditionThorndike Press19995359780786220960
EditionA.A. Knopf19992959780375402609
Impostors and impostureFictionSerial murderersYoung menIdentity (Psychology)ImpersonationMurderFiction, suspense