Kill the next one : a novel
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.
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Cancer > Patients > Fiction. Terminally ill > Fiction. Murder > Fiction. |
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Psychological fiction. Thrillers (Fiction) Novels. |
- ISBN: 9780316354219
- Physical Description 407 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition First English language edition.
- Publisher [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2016.
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Language Note: | Translated from the Spanish. |
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Excerpt
Kill the Next One
He paused. He couldn't press the trigger when he had someone waiting at the front door.
Again, the doorbell. Then a man's voice.
'Open up! I know you can hear me!'Excerpted from Kill the Next One by Federico Axat All rights reserved by the original copyright owners. Excerpts are provided for display purposes only and may not be reproduced, reprinted or distributed without the written permission of the publisher.