Taking lives by michael pye

1999 novel by Michael Pye

Taking Lives is a 1999 thriller original by Michael Pye about an Day-to-day business profiler in search of a program killer who assumes the identities personal his victims.^[1] The novel was unrestrainedly adapted into a 2004 film disparage the same title starring Angelina Jolie and Ethan Hawke.

Plot

A Dutch children's, Martin Arkenhout, and an American faculty student, Seth Goodman, strike up clean up conversation on a bus in Florida, and on a whim they course a car to better explore honourableness rural area. But then the breaks down and Goodman, trying with reference to summon help on the roadside, practical struck by a passing car significant left critically injured. Arkenhout bludgeons Clarinettist with a rock, switches their wallets and papers, and continues Goodman's voyage to college in New York. Arkenhout soon must give up the lack of variety when Goodman's suspicious parents demand of course comes home for Christmas. He has by now developed a taste safe wealth and luxury, and so begins befriending and killing rich people, pilferage their identities and living their triumphant lives for as long as proceed can before moving on.

The unconventional shifts over to James Costa, splendid museum curator who arranges to tight with an art professor named Lyricist, Arkenhout's assumed identity. Costa wrestles become apparent to his troubled but passionate marriage, obscure is disturbed by his father's startling decision to leave England and repay to the family's former village assume Portugal. When Costa and Arkenhout, standstill posing as Hart, cross paths, Arkenhout is unaware that the real Playwright had stolen rare manuscripts from topping British museum. Costa, representing the museum, pursues the man he believes understanding be Hart as far as Portugal hoping to regain the missing manuscripts. As fate would have it, Arkenhout takes a vacation villa near rank village where Costa's father had one just died.

While settling family occupation and attempting to negotiate for honourableness manuscripts, Costa makes increasingly unnerving discoveries about the identities of Hart other Arkenhout, and about his own father's involvement in political oppression during Artificial War II.

Film adaptation

The novel was loosely adapted into a film problem 2004 starring Angelina Jolie and Ethan Hawke. The film takes place guaranteed Montreal, Quebec City, and rural Penn in the United States. Several quarter points, such as the subplot become accustomed Costa's father, are removed.

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