Detective Thorne #5
Harper
June 2007
On Sale: June 1, 2007
Featuring: Tom Thorne
464 pages ISBN: 0060841672 EAN: 9780060841676 Mass Market Paperback Add to Wish List
Tom Thorne's career is on the skids. Having seriously
crossed the line on his last case and depressed over the
recent suspicious death of his father, the once ambitious
police detective has been reduced to pushing papers . . .
and is being encouraged to take a prolonged leave of duty.
But someone is stalking the city's most destitute
citizens. Three homeless men have recently been kicked to
death, each brutalized corpse discovered with a banknote
pinned to its chest. With nothing to lose, Thorne volunteers
to try to find the killer—taking to the streets he knows so
well from his days as beat policeman and as a homicide
detective, but this time joining the squalid ranks of life's
rejects. In this harsh and harrowing netherworld, with its
own rules and moral codes, a shocking link between the
brutal crimes and a fifteen-year-old atrocity could end up
costing Thorne what little life he has left.