
The Demands
Mark Billingham
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Description
The customers in a London convenience store are taken captive. Among them is young mother, Detective Helen Weeks. She is told her life depends on the co-operation of one of her colleagues - detective Tom Thorne.
The Demand
Akhtar is desperate to know what really happened to his beloved son, who died a year before in prison. He is convinced the death was not an accident and forces the one man who knows more about the case than any other, Thorne, to re-investigate.
The Twist
What Thorne discovers will upend everything he thought he knew about the fate of those he's put away...but will it be enough to fulfill the wishes of a grieving and potentially violent father?
Product Details
Publisher | Mulholland Books |
Publish Date | June 12, 2012 |
Pages | 416 |
Language | English |
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EAN/UPC | 9780316126632 |
Dimensions | 9.3 X 6.2 X 1.5 inches | 1.4 pounds |
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Reviews
"Ingeniously constructed...this great novel should put Billingham in the same league as Ian Rankin, Peter Robinson, John Harvey and Denise Mina. A breakthrough novel."--Kirkus (starred review)
"One of the most consistently entertaining, insightful crime writers working today."--Gillian Flynn
"The tenth outing with London detective Tom Thorne starts out as a conventional hostage novel, but then skillfully explores guilt, cultural differences and injustice."--Florida Sun-Sentinel, 2012's Best Crime Fiction
"Tom Thorne is the new superstar detective...Mark Billingham is the new-wave leader of crime fiction."--Lee Child
"With each of his books, Mark Billingham gets better and better. These are stories and characters you don't want to leave."--Michael Connelly
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