Mark Billingham LIFELESS Signed First Edition
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Mark Billingham LIFELESS Signed First Edition
First UK edition, first print hardback of LIFELESS by Mark Billingham, published by Little Brown, London, in 2005. Signed by the author on the title page.The book is in very good condition (Clean black cloth boards with white lettering on the spine) with only minor wear to the dust jacket which is not price clipped (slight creasing to the edges, small sticker residue inside the jacket). Internally, the pages are clean and tight and there are no tears and no other inscriptions.
By the bestselling author of The Burning Girl. It's hardly a life. But he'll take it anyway ...
"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 seriously overstepping the mark on his last case, he's been encouraged to take 'gardening' leave. For an ambitious detective - especially one without so much as a window box - it's 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 ?20 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 moral 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 is that the killer is a cop. A policeman, it seems, was sniffing around long before Thorne came on the scene..."
Lifeless 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 DI Tom Thorne.
Mark Billingham's series of "Tom Thorne" crime novels are bestsellers in that particular genre. He is also a television screenwriter and has become a familiar face as an actor and stand-up comic. His first crime novel was published in 2001. A television series based on the Tom Thorne novels will be screened on Sky One in Autumn 2010.
375 pages.
ISBN: 0 316 72752 0
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