Lifeless - Mark Billingham

Three men, sleeping rough on London’s mean streets, have been found brutally murdered – each victim was kicked to death and found with a £20 note pinned to his chest. But were they killed at random, or were they targeted for a reason?

Tom Thorne is posted to the same streets – working undercover, disguised as a homeless man. In a harsh and harrowing underworld, Thorne discovers the horrifying link between the homeless victims and the perpetrators of a fifteen-year-old atrocity.

Those who know are keeping quiet. But the word on these streets is that the killer is a cop . ..