Lifeless

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To friends and enemies alike, it looks as though Tom Thorne's career is on the skids. Depressed by the recent loss of his father and berated for seríously oversteppíng the mark on his last case, he's been encouraged to take 'gardening' leave. For an ambitious detectíve - especially one wíthout so much as a window box - it's a fairly dire situation.
But not as dire as the situation for London's homeless. Three men. sleeping rough on streets paved with anything but gold, have been murdered
- each victim kicked to death and found with a L20 note pinned to his chest. Were these men just random alcoholics, junkies and jetsam? Or were they targeted for a reason?
Thorne is perfectly placed to find out. and is seconded to the streets. Not as a policeman on the beat but as one of life's rejects. It fits: he looks the part
- and feels it as well. In a harsh and harrowing netherworld, with its own rules and morál code. Thorne discovers the horrifying link between the homeless victims and... Tovább

Fülszöveg

To friends and enemies alike, it looks as though Tom Thorne's career is on the skids. Depressed by the recent loss of his father and berated for seríously oversteppíng the mark on his last case, he's been encouraged to take 'gardening' leave. For an ambitious detectíve - especially one wíthout so much as a window box - it's a fairly dire situation.
But not as dire as the situation for London's homeless. Three men. sleeping rough on streets paved with anything but gold, have been murdered
- each victim kicked to death and found with a L20 note pinned to his chest. Were these men just random alcoholics, junkies and jetsam? Or were they targeted for a reason?
Thorne is perfectly placed to find out. and is seconded to the streets. Not as a policeman on the beat but as one of life's rejects. It fits: he looks the part
- and feels it as well. In a harsh and harrowing netherworld, with its own rules and morál code. Thorne discovers the horrifying link between the homeless victims and the perpetrators of a fifteen-year-old atrocity. Those that know are saying nothing. But the word on these streets ís that the killer is a cop. A policeman, it seems. was sniffing around long before Thorne came on the scene
Lífeless is another benchmark literary thriller from Mark Billingham. With acute observation of character and seamless plotting. the story races to a shocking climax beneath the streets of London in this latest, blisteringly atmospheric outing for Dl Tom Thorne. Vissza