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Record Nr.

UNINA9910160339003321

Autore

Axat Federico

Titolo

Kill the next one / / Federico Axat, translated by David Frye

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, New York : , : Mulholland Books / Little Brown & Company, , [2016]

©2016

ISBN

0-316-35419-8

0-316-39566-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (380 pages)

Disciplina

863.7

Soggetti

Serial murders

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- Title Page -- Table of Contents -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Part I -- 1 -- 2 -- 3 -- 4 -- 5 -- 6 -- 7 -- 8 -- 9 -- 10 -- 11 -- 12 -- 13 -- 14 -- Part II -- 15 -- 16 -- 17 -- 18 -- 19 -- 20 -- 21 -- 22 -- 23 -- Part III -- 24 -- 25 -- 26 -- 27 -- 28 -- 29 -- 30 -- 31 -- 32 -- 33 -- 34 -- 35 -- 36 -- 37 -- 38 -- 39 -- 40 -- 41 -- 42 -- 43 -- 44 -- 45 -- 46 -- 47 -- 48 -- 49 -- 50 -- 51 -- 52 -- 53 -- 54 -- 55 -- 56 -- Part IV -- 57 -- 58 -- 59 -- 60 -- 61 -- 62 -- 63 -- 64 -- 65 -- 66 -- 67 -- 68 -- 69 -- 70 -- 71 -- 72 -- 73 -- 74 -- 75 -- 76 -- 77 -- 78 -- 79 -- 80 -- 81 -- 82 -- 83 -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author -- Newsletters.

Sommario/riassunto

"Ted McKay had it all: a beautiful wife, two daughters, a high-paying job. But after being diagnosed with a terminal brain tumor he finds himself with a gun to his temple, ready to pull the trigger. Then the doorbell rings. A stranger makes him a proposition: why not kill two deserving men before dying? The first target is a criminal, and the second is a man with terminal cancer who, like Ted, wants to die. After executing these kills, Ted will become someone else's next target, like a kind of suicidal daisy chain. Ted understands the stranger's logic: it's easier for a victim's family to deal with a murder than with a suicide. However, as Ted commits the murders, the crime scenes strike him as odd. The targets know him by name and possess familiar mementos. Even more bizarrely, Ted recognizes locations and men he shouldn't



know. As Ted's mind begins to crack, dark secrets from his past seep through the fissures"--