{"product_id":"9780060841676","title":"Lifeless (Tom Thorne Series #5)","description":"\u003cp\u003eIt's hardly a life. But he'll take it anyway. . . .   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  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 a fairly dire situation.   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  But not as dire as the situation for London's homeless. Three men, sleeping rough on the streets, have been murdered, each victim kicked to death and found with a banknote pinned to his chest. Were these men just random alcoholics, junkies, and jetsam? Or were they targeted for a reason?   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  With nothing to lose, Thorne sets out to find the killer. It helps that he's well acquainted with the streets, once as a policeman on the beat, but now as one of life's rejects. In a harsh and harrowing netherworld, with its own rules and moral codes, Thorne discovers the horrifying link between the homeless victims and the perpetrators of a fifteen-year-old atrocity.   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  Those who 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.   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  The latest in the Tom Thorne series, \u003ci\u003eLifeless\u003c\/i\u003e is the thrilling story of a man as driven to find a ruthless killer as he is to bring about his own self-destruction. With dark humor and incredible tension, \u003cb\u003eMark Billingham\u003c\/b\u003e reaffirms his place as one of today's master storytellers.  \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47021178683632,"sku":"9780060841676","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780060841676_p0.jpg?v=1763619864","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780060841676","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}