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Martin Arkenhout will nach einem Jahr Aufenthalt als Austauschstudent in den USA nicht in seinen miefigen Alltag in Amsterdam zurückkehren und fasst einen teuflischen Plan. Er begeht eine Serie von Morden, bringt immer wieder reiche Einzelgänger mit interessanten Biografien und ohne feste Bindungen um die Ecke, stiehlt deren Ausweise und Kreditkarten und nimmt für eine Weile die Identität dieser Männer an. Er ist überzeugt davon, dass er die Leben seiner Opfer besser lebt, als sie selbst es jemals gekonnt hätten. Eines Tages jedoch begeht er einen schwerwiegenden Fehler, der ihm zum Verhängnis werden wird...
Ein psychologischer Thriller über die Fragilität der eigenen Identität und das Verlangen, sich selbst neu zu erfinden.
An FBI profiler is called in by French Canadian police to catch a cunning serial killer.
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 traveler. 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 his kicks from murdering various strangers along the way. What makes these killings 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 personality 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, apparently, a love for valuable manuscripts. The theft of one such manuscript gained the special attention of a private investigator, John Costa. Martin 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
please, people, go back to your Grisham fluffAhh, yes, the inevitable bad reviews. Not surprising, really. I'm sure people have been picking this book up expecting your typical John Sandford or John Patterson hack and slash faire. People, it's a LITERARY THRILLER, and an exquisitely written one at that. The characters were well drawn, the descriptive narrative breathtaking. Anyone who's looking for something completely different to read this summer - here's your book. As for the rest, please, go back to your simplified Balducci and Grisham novels
FABULOUS AND CHILLINGBeautifully written, elegantly plotted, marvelously conceived,diabolical . . . and what style!
BreathtakingThis book is blowing me away...BUY I
Smart, surprising, thrilling and crafted like a Rolls Royce.It can't possibly be a compliment to the writer who no doubt spent years crafting such a fine novel, but truth be told, I consumed it in an afternoon. Not that it's a "light read" -oh no. It's intense, surprising, shocking...and the only cliché about it is that it's impossible to put down. The author has taken the concept of "literary thriller" and dusted it off, made it new and exciting again. Completely original, and very cinematic, Taking Lives is a BUY IT NOW book.
Great Promise. Doesn't DeliverI saw this book while browsing in a local bookstore and was intrigued. The premise was novel and the jacket teasers promised a tight, exciting read. However, a tight, exciting read never developed.There was no psychological development of Arkenhout. Why did he commit these murders? Was he torn by them? I suppose the author wanted me to care about Christopher Hart-- his struggles with father and wife and career. Honestly, though, I kept reading through crushingly long sections about this very dry museum curator wondering "What is the point of this?" In fact, that question came up again and again as I read this novel. What a disappointment.