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by Mark Billingham


  The Little, Brown team remain an unbridled joy to work with and thanks, as always, are due to David Shelley, Tamsin Kitson, Robert Manser, Sean Garrehy, Emma Williams, Sarah Shrubb and Thalia Proctor. My editor Ed Wood improved the book immeasurably, as did Allison Malecha at Grove Atlantic and I can only apologise to her and to those US readers unfamiliar with cockney rhyming slang for leaving in the one joke I couldn’t bear to part with.

  The two people to whom I always owe a debt of thanks are Wendy ‘span/spun’ Lee and my wonderful agent, Sarah Lutyens. Both are eagle-eyed and peerless when it comes to furniture.

  And, of course, the biggest thank you of all to Claire, Katie and Jack.

  My only addiction and my best support group.

  Table of Contents

  About the Author

  Also by Mark Billingham

  Copyright

  Dedication

  Epigraph

  Prologue

  The Visitor

  PART ONE: The Broken Circle

  There and Then

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  Here and Now

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  PART TWO: KING OF THE WORLD, PIECE OF SHIT

  The Visitor

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  PART THREE: Play the Innocent

  The Visitor

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  PART FOUR: A Safe Place

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  Acknowledgements

 

 

 


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