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Tokyo Year Zero (Tokyo Trilogy 1)

Tokyo Year Zero (Tokyo Trilogy 1)

Author(s): David Peace

Location(s): Tokyo

Genre(s): Crime, Historical, Thriller

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Post war Japan…The police force barely functions, and a variety of unpleasant individuals struggle for supremacy in Tokyo’s thriving black market. Peace’s protagonist, Detective Minami, is assigned a difficult case: the bodies of two women are found in Sheba Park, but as he begins to dig beneath the surface of an increasingly baffling and complex mystery, Minami finds (to his dismay) that his personal past — and personal secrets — are somehow involved with the murderer and his savage killings.

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‘A searing piece, the narration taut, the prose spare and uncompromising … the bleakness of the times is beautifully captured.’ (Sunday Telegraph)

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