A brilliantly powerful and unsettling thriller in the tradition of Barbara Vne and Donna Tartt Martin, a 17 year old Dutchman travelling across the States, kills his young American travelling companion and adopts his identitySome months later he takes on another life, adopting another passport, set of credit cards and identity. A decade and many lives later, now back in the Netherlands, he kills and becomes a young British artist historian, investigating the disapperabce of a series of valuable prints, and before he leaves the Netherlands, runs into his own mother on a tram. Series of killings in troubleIn Portugal, Martin and Costas become involved with the same woman, and the scene is set for a brilliant intellectual thriller, fascinating in it's twists, the elegance of it's writing and it's exploration of shifting and ambiguous identities.
- ISBN10 1283999838
- ISBN13 9781283999830
- Publish Date 1 January 2007 (first published 22 February 1999)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 25 February 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Vintage
- Format eBook
- Language English