Kill the Next One

Federico Axat was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1975. His earlier novels have been translated into Italian, German, French, Portugese and Chinese. His third novel, Kill the Next One, was published as La última Salida in Spanish and has become an international sensation with rights sold in 33 territories. Axat’s novels stand out for their high dose of suspense, plot twists and unexpected endings. Kill the Next One is set in the United States, where Axat lived for a time before returning to his native Argentina.

Maxwell Hamilton was born and raised in Manhattan Beach, California. He attended UCLA's Theatre, Film and Television department and graduated in 2013. He went on to work as an actor in San Francisco and New York with indie theatre company Rising Pheonix Rep and Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre. He now lives in Los Angeles, working as an actor, director, producer and musician. He landed the role of Jackson in USA's Colony in 2014 and has created and runs Five Horizons Media Group and continues to produce projects in theatre and film as well as narrating audio books.

When he isn’t translating, David Frye teaches Latin American culture and society at the University of Michigan. Translations include First New Chronicle and Good Government by Guaman Poma de Ayala (Peru, 1615); The Mangy Parrot by José Joaquín Fernandez de Lizardi (Mexico, 1816), for which he received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship; Writing Across Cultures: Narrative Transculturation in Latin America by Ángel Rama (Uruguay, 1982); and several Cuban and Spanish novels and poems.