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The novel launched a successful series featuring the london detective tom thorne, going. George pelecanos with each of his books, mark billingham gets better and better. The dying hours is the eleventh tom thorne thriller. Mark philip david billingham born 2 july 1961 is an english novelist, actor, television.
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