"Fast paced run for your life page turner!"

If you pick up this book expecting to see your favorite characters and catching up on their lives, they have taken a vacation from the action in this one. It is completely written from the patients' point of view and in the first person. The premise is unusual in that the story is being told after most of the events have taken place. Then it brings you into the present time with what is happening now. The plot is simple enough. A wealthy man who is a control person and is into X Games, decides that he wouldn't want to live if he couldn't live life to the fullest. After an diving accident leaves one of his friends on life support and brain dead. He makes the statement, "I wouldn't want to live like that." One of his friends introduces him to the "Death Angels", his name for them. He sets the parameters which he doesn't want to live with and he is bound into a contract that is unbreakable.

One of the things I noticed right away about this book is the main character doesn't have a name. That is the reason I will be referring to him as "he" through out this review.

We are introduced to a wealth of interesting people that keep this book interesting and moving right along the fast track.

The worst case happens and he crosses the line and the contract is activated. He needs to see his son, whom he is estranged from, and tell him he really loves him. An everything any father would want to tell his son before he left this earth. Only the son is missing. Now he must evade his killers and look for his son at the same time. All the while he is battling his disease. He has a little help from an "angel" in his quest. This book will keep you reading.

It is a departure for Stephen White and one he did very well.

Reviewed by Judith Saul
Posted February 28, 2006

Summary

THIS ONE IS DIFFERENT.
New York Times bestselling author Stephen White has written a new breed of thriller. 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.

Intelligent and relentlessly paced, Kill Me is the smart kind of read that fans have come to expect from Stephen White. 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 after readers have raced to the last page. Readers will be asking each other: "What would you do?" "If you could sign up—really—would you?"