The fifth book featuring Thorne; you know you're loving a series when you can't wait 'til the paperback launch. Tom's on gardening leave and experiencing a bit of a car crash, thoroughly depressed after the recent loss of his father and after a severe knuckle-rapping on his last case. Homeless men are being murdered on the streets of London and Thorne is parachuted in to go undercover, already looking and acting the part. A cracking read, you won't be able to put down, this firmly cements Billingham as a thrilling crime writer.
The fifth book in the Tom Thorne series, from bestselling author Mark Billingham.
A SERIES OF KILLINGS
Three men, sleeping rough on London's mean streets, have been found brutally murdered - each victim kicked to death and found with a GBP20 note pinned to his chest. But were they killed at random, or were they targeted for a reason?
A DEADLY MISSION
Tom Thorne is posted to the same streets - working undercover, disguised as a homeless man. In a harsh and harrowing underworld, Thorne discovers the horrifying link between the homeless victims and the perpetrators of a fifteen-year-old atrocity.
A RUTHLESS ENEMY
Those who know are keeping quiet. But the word on these streets is that the killer is a cop...
Complex, thought-provoking and, in parts, very funny ... a tour de force Observer
Murder and mystery do not come better than this What's on in London Assured and shocking thriller The Guardian
A cunning variation on the serial-murder theme Sunday Telegraph
Author
About Mark Billingham
Mark Billingham has been awarded the 2003 Sherlock Award as the creator of the Best Detective created by a British writer and has twice won the Theakston's Old Peculier prize for best novel of the year.
Each of the novels featuring Detective Inspector Tom Thorne has been a Sunday Times bestseller. Sleepyhead and Scaredy Cat were made into a hit TV series on Sky 1 starring David Morrissey as Thorne, and a series based on the novels In the Dark and Time of Death was broadcast on BBC1.
Mark lives in north London with his wife and two children.
A dogged London cop whose beat somehow invariably crosses into the dark side and confronts evil at its cleverest.DEATH MESSAGE is the 7th in the series, and BLOOD LINE appears in August 2009.
