Tokyo Year Zero
- 400 pages
- 14 hours of reading
Part one of David Peace's 'Tokyo Trilogy', and a stunning literary thriller in its own right, from the bestselling author of GB84 and The Damned Utd.August 1946.
Tokyo Trilogy Series
This series plunges into the heart of post-war Tokyo, a city shattered by destruction and rife with corruption. Follow gripping investigations into brutal crimes as detectives delve into the city's dark underbelly and their own troubled pasts. Uncover complex conspiracies where the lines between right and wrong, reality and delusion, blur. It's a compelling exploration of human nature pushed to its limits amidst chaos and violence.
Recommended Reading Order
- 1
- 2
Occupied City
- 275 pages
- 10 hours of reading
'We all know what this could be: we know it could be dysentery, we know it could be typhoid.
- 2
Occupied City
- 320 pages
- 12 hours of reading
On January 26, 1948, a man posing as a public health official arrives at a bank in Tokyo. He explains that he’s there to treat everyone who might have been exposed to a recent outbreak of dysentery. Soon after drinking the medicine he administers, twelve employees are dead, four are unconscious, and the “official” has fled. Twelve voices tell the story of the murder from different perspectives including a journalist, a gangster-turned-businessman, an “occult detective,” and a well-known painter. Each voice enlarges and deepens the portrait of a city and a people making their way out of a war-induced hell. Told with David Peace’s brilliantly idiosyncratic and mesmerizing voice, Occupied City is a stunningly audacious work from a singular writer.
- 3
The Occupation had a hangover, but still the Occupation went to work. Tokyo, July 1949, President Shimoyama, Head of the National Railways of Japan, goes missing just a day after serving notice of 30,000 job losses.