Lifeless ( In der Stunde des Todes) is the fifth novel in the Tom Thorne-series by Mark Billingham. Jentas is publishing Billingham’s books in Dutch, Polish, German, Swedish.
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 £20 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 the se streets is that the killer is a cop…
