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 TrilogySeries
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
Tokyo, January 26th, 1948. As the third year of the US Occupation of Japan begins, a man enters a downtown bank. He speaks of an outbreak of dysentery and says he is a doctor, sent by the Occupation authorities, to treat anyone who might have been exposed. Clear liquid is poured into sixteen teacups. Sixteen employees of the bank drink this liquid according to strict instructions. Within minutes twelve of them are dead, the other four unconscious. The man disappears along with some, but not all, of the bank’s money. And so begins the biggest manhunt in Japanese history.In Occupied City, David Peace dramatises and explores the rumours of complicity, conspiracy and cover-up that surround the chilling case of the Teikoku Bank Massacre: of the man who was convicted of the crime, of the legacy of biological warfare programmes, and of the victims and survivors themselves.
- 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.