Reed’s got a couple of stitches in his scalp, a torn ligament, bruised ribs. “Blimey,” Luther says, shutting the curtains. The blood on his white shirt has dried in patches. He sweeps aside the heavy curtain to cubicle 18, and there’s Ian Reed, sitting tieless on the edge of the bed. He ignores the moans of the binge drinkers, the beaten women, the self-mutilators, the overdosers. Luther marches through the waiting area, weaves through nurses in rubber clogs.

“That’s the police officer?” She glances at her monitor. He strides through sliding doors into Accident and Emergency, approaches the desk, and badges the Filipino triage nurse. John Luther, a big man with a big walk, crosses the hospital car park, glistening with night rain. After years of chasing the most depraved criminals in London’s gritty underworld, he seethes with a hidden fury he can barely control, making him do things any other detective wouldn’t and shouldn’t do.Ī compulsively readable novel by the writer hailed by The Guardian as “Britain’s own Stephen King,” this is the story of the serial killer case that tore Luther’s personal and professional relationships apart and propelled him over the precipice-beyond fury, beyond vengeance, all the way to the other side of the law. And yet there are rumors that Luther is bad-not corrupt, but tormented. Nobody who ever stood at his side has a bad word to say about him. He’s obsessive, instinctive, and intense. He’s a homicide detective with an extraordinary case-clearance rate. Meet Detective Chief Inspector John Luther. Is Luther a force for good or a man hell-bent on self-destruction? Don’t miss this prequel to the hit crime series and Netflix film Luther: The Fallen Sun starring Idris Elba-written by the Edgar Award–winning creator and sole writer of the show!Ī “gripping, taut” (Guillermo del Toro) thriller featuring homicide detective John Luther, “who is intelligent and almost freakishly intuitive belongs not only to the Sherlock Holmes tradition but also to the newer crime-fiction model elaborated by Thomas Harris in his novels Red Dragon, The Silence of the Lambs, and Hannibal” ( The New York Times).

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