Federico Axat’s work is headed to the big screen…

Anonymous Content and Campanario Entertainment have joined forces to acquire the rights to the 41-year-old Argentine author’s novel Kill the Next One.

Craig Rosenberg will write the screenplay based on Axat’s book.

First published to acclaim in Spanish as La Ultima Salida, the novel is now rolling out around the world in 30 languages, mostly under the title The Last Way Out. It was recently published in the U.S. by the Hachette imprint Mulholland Books.

The thriller’s protagonist, Ted McKay, is about to put a bullet in his brain when his doorbell rings and a stranger makes him an offer worth a temporary stay of self-execution: a last heroic act that would protect his family from the pain of his suicide. McKay soon finds himself at the center of a grisly game of manipulation and death.

The novel is the third from the Buenos Aires-born Axat.