Throw out everything you think you know about twists, turns, and surprises.
Get ready for the next big thing.
Get ready to meet the Death Angels.

We've all been there. A loved one or a dear friend becomes desperately ill or is tragically injured. Someone - maybe even you - says, "If that ever happens to me, I wish someone would just . . . kill me."

What if you could choose when to die?

But once you decide, you can't change your mind.

Ever.

No matter what.

Welcome to the next step in the evolution of suspense fiction, to an in-your-face/what-would-you-do? topical thriller. Kill Me is a brilliantly conceived roller-coaster ride that zeros in on some of the most contentious issues of our time, the human yearning for connection between the choices we make about our lives and deaths.

Kill Me brings Alan Gregory face-to-face with the most challenging case of his career. As always, White's characters are indelible and the dialogue is dead-on, but Kill Me is fresh and thought provoking in a way that's so uncommon in crime fiction. Kill Me delivers on all the promise of White's earlier work and then raises the bar in an unforgettably inventive tale of life and death. This is the book that you won't be able to put down, but more to the point, this is the book that won't go away. Listeners will be asking each other: "What would you do?" "If you could sign up - really - would you?"

It takes an unconventional performer to do justice to this atypical mystery. Dick Hill fits the bill perfectly. After seeing a friend in a coma and watching his brother die of ALS, a millionaire pays big bucks for "death insurance." A mysterious company guarantees to kill the insured quickly and mercifully should he or she contract a disease that will cause suffering. Almost simultaneously, the millionaire learns he has an aneurysm that will soon likely leave him a vegetable; he also learns that he has a son he never knew about-- a reason to stay alive. Hill masters the quirky moments of this thriller with just the right amount of irony and dread. A.L.H. (c) AudioFile 2006, Portland, Maine

 

Stephen White is a clinical psychologist and the New York Times bestselling author of sixteen novels, including Kill Me and Dry Ice. He lives in Colorado.