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Take Another Life
The Decalogian kills. He is always ready for the opportunity to take another life. He targets young men in the sex industry - escorts and rent boys. But is he real or a character from Chris's novel? Chris Jansson kills. He targets any feelings of attraction and desire that come to him. Chris is a writer of TV documentaries and novels. On a research trip to London he has an accidental encounter with a musician called Harry. On the same day he makes contact with young escort, Matt. The contact is professional: Chris's profession, not Matt's. Later, another boy is murdered. There are connections between Harry and Matt, and as the story unfolds it becomes increasingly likely that there are connections between Chris and the killer. The main characters are unwittingly put onto a collision course with the killer. The Decalogian is, it seems, real after all. They will not survive in tact. Encounters with the Decalogian are invariably fatal or life-changing. Who will live? Who will die?
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First published August 1, 2014
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August 4, 2014
The title is apt and it has several meanings, from the literal (a serial killer on the loose) to the abstract—painter and writer Chris Jansson’s destabilizing absorption with the life of rent-boy Matt Finn who agrees to write up his daily life so Chris can use the material for a TV documentary. To complicate matters, bumping into handsome Harry is an accident that calls to account Chris’s own sexuality. His voice is the central one, but Matt’s voice runs in parallel as he outlines in his laptop diary his work, his customers, and their particular preferences (but without the intimate details of sex, the bits “you” can fill in for yourself, as Aaron, Matt’s professional name, writes).
This powerful narrative of the entwined lives of half a dozen people and the blurred lines between what Chris is writing and what the killer is doing keeps the pages turning to the blood-stained climax. The climax, however, is not quite all of the story…
This powerful narrative of the entwined lives of half a dozen people and the blurred lines between what Chris is writing and what the killer is doing keeps the pages turning to the blood-stained climax. The climax, however, is not quite all of the story…
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