Date: 14 June 2011, 12:50
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Product Description: He has chosen to die and signed a contract with the right people to make it happen. Everything will go as planned, even if he changes his mind. Which he has. And all he can do now is keep looking over his shoulder. Stephen White's new thriller, "Kill Me," deals with a new concept--death insurance. Suppose you were a fabulously wealthy man and you wanted to be sure that your life ended before you became severely disabled or impaired. Would you pay an organization over a million dollars to kill you and make your death look natural? That is the choice facing the protagonist and narrator of this novel, whom I'll call Mr. X, since the author never gives him a name. White's recurring character, psychologist Alan Gregory, plays a brief but essential role. He helps the narrator deal with issues of vulnerability and intimacy. They also discuss the existence of a son that X never knew he had. X is an arrogant and high-powered businessman with a private plane and more money than he'll ever need. He has had affairs with scores of women, and one of his brief encounters resulted in the birth of Adam, whom X meets when the adolescent boy tracks him down. By then, X is married to the beautiful and sensitive Thea, and they have a baby girl. Is there room for Adam in X's life? What emotional solace can X provide for the needy young man? Much to X's shock, he learns that he has a medical condition that may hasten his death, but he decides that he wants to live long enough to bring closure to Adam. Will the so-called "Death Angels," which is the nickname that X has given to the people whom he has hired to kill him, let X live, or will they fulfill their end of the bargain regardless of his wishes?
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