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2000s: Is Tom Throne As Good as Dead?
Good As Dead (Tom Thorne 10)
Why a Booktrail?
2000s: Is Tom Throne As Good as Dead?
What you need to know before your trail
Police officer Helen Weeks walks into her local newsagent’s on her way to work and in the few minutes which follow, her life changes for ever. She is taken hostage by a gunman who demands to know what happened to his son who died in police custody a year earlier. By taking Helen hostage, he knows that Tom Thorne will soon be on the case and maybe then he will finally get answers he’s waited so long to hear.
But life is not that simple and hostage situations are risky and could change an escalate at any time.
Travel Guide
Two major locations in this novel are the fictional Barndale Young Offenders Institute and the author did a lot of his research at the real HMP Cookham Wood in Rochester although this is not a story based on anything he found whilst there. Barndale is said to be some 35 miles north west of London.
This takes you straight into the heart of a police investigation and a frightening siege situation in an apparently small and humble corner shop. This is also a setting of the racism, injustice and social issues which afflict not just the streets of London but any other major and not so major cities.
From inside the small and suffocating situation in the shop, to hostage negotiators outside, to the the wider police investigation, the setting is claustrophobic and dangerous.
Streetview Maps
A) Copenhagen street entrance to Barnard Park
C) Norwood Road - the newsagents
Destination: London Departure Time: 2000s
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