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Kill the next one

Federico Axat

2016304 pagesabout 5–7 hours
2016
first published
  • 2016Little Brown & Company · 304 pages · ENGISBN 9780316354196
  • 2016Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company · 407 pages · ENGISBN 9780316354219
  • 2016Text Publishing Company · 432 pages · ENGISBN 9781925355871
  • 2017Text Publishing Company · 416 pages · ENGISBN 9781911231066
  • 2017Thorndike Press · 628 pages · ENGISBN 9781410498182

"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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