Good as dead
By: Mark Billingham
Publisher: Little, Brown
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 394
ISBN-13: 9781847444196; 9781847444202
Subjects: Tom Thorne (Fictitious character); Police; Hostages; Fiction
Description: Detective Tom Thorne is forced to re-consider an old case when a grieving father takes one of Thorne's colleagues hostage. The man demands to know the truth about how his son died in prison; he is convinced the death was not an accident. 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 end the hostage situation without violence? Published in the United States in 2012 under the title: The demands.