Tokyo Year Zero

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August 1946. One year on from surrender and Tokyo lies broken and bleeding at the feet of its American victors. Among the survivors of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, panic is spreading. Facing the threat of a second purge the officers and detectives, with their changed identities and false names, realise that they can trust no one, least of all each other. Meanwhile another war is breaking out, as the different ethnic groups fight for control of the city's black markets.



Against this extraordinary historical backdrop, Tokyo Year Zero opens with the discovery of the bodies of two young women in Shiba Park. Against his wishes, Detective Minami is assigned to the case, and as he gets drawn ever deeper into these complex and horrific murders, he realises that his own past and secrets are indelibly linked to those of the dead women and their killer.

Reviews

"Part historical stunner, part Kurosawa crime film, an original all the way. David Peace's depiction of a war-torn metropolis both crumbling and ascendant is peerless, and the story itself is beautifully wrought." --James Ellroy"Brilliant, perplexing, claustrophobic. . . . Exhilarating." --"The New York Times Book Review""The big post-war Japan novel, a fierce marriage of mood and narrative drive. David Peace continues to polish and advance his particular brand of literary crime fiction." --George Pelecanos"Once this hellish locomotive of a book hooks onto its tracks it becomes difficult to stop." --"San Francisco Chronicle"

Author Bio

The author of The Red Riding Quartet, David Peace was chosen as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists in 2003. He was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 2004 for his fifth novel, GB84, and his most recent novel, The Damned Utd, was described in The Times as 'probably the best novel ever written about sport'.