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The author of The Drowning Room presents a chilling psychological portrait of a young serial killer who takes on the identities of his victims after he has killed them in the belief that he can live their lives better than they do. 50,000 first printing. Tour.

Michael Pye writes for a living -- as novelist, journalist, historian and sometimes broadcaster. He is English by birth, but civilized by study in Italy and a newspaper apprenticeship in Scotland. For twenty years he commuted between New York and Europe as a political and cultural columnist for British newspapers. He now lives with his partner John Holm in a tiny village in the forests of rural Portugal.<br><br>He grew up in the English countryside and, in the classic English manner, was sent abroad to grow up: to the Universita per Stranieri in Perugia, Italy. He returned to study history at Oxford, won various prizes and was about to become an academic when he realized that writing, and writing often, was the only thing he knew how to do. He joined <i>The Scotsman</i> newspaper in Edinburgh during the headiest day