‘Morse, Rebus, and now Mark Billingham's Thorne. The next superstar detective is already with us - don't miss him.’

Lee Child

Thorne on Screen

A series of films based on the Thorne books is now in production, which is an exciting and scary business for the writer. As things stand, each reader has a different vision of Tom Thorne, but the moment the actor portraying him walks into that first scene, all bets are off. There’s a very real danger he can become fixed in people’s minds, rather in the way that John Thaw is Inspector Morse, however much he might differ from the character in Colin Dexter’s books. And who knows what picture of Thorne will be in my head, the next time I sit down to write about him? We’ll have to wait and see. David Morrissey will be playing Tom Thorne and the rest of the cast is hugely exciting, so things are looking very interesting.