Taking Lives

This book is a work of fiction. The criminal who inspired it is still at large. You could meet him today: the man who wants your life. He'll take it, literally - kill you and live your life better than you ever could. Martin Arkenhout has learned with chilling ease how to find the lives of people who will not be missed. He shifts effortlessly from one identity to another, stealing passports, credit cards, carefully hiding his tracés. But one day he makes a mistake. He kilts and becomes a young British art historian, Christopher Hart, and follows his plans to go to Portugal. Then Martin runs into his own mother on a tram and for the first time his series of seamless killings and identities runs into trouble ...