Tokyo Year Zero: Book One of the Tokyo Trilogy

Unblinking in its vision of a nation in a chaotic, hellish period in its history, Tokyo Year Zero is a "brilliant, perplexing, claustrophobic ... exhilarating" crime novel (The New York Times Book Review).

It's August 1946--one year after the Japanese surrender--and women are turning up dead all over Tokyo. Detective Minami of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police--irreverent, angry, despairing--goes on the hunt for a killer known as the Japanese Bluebeard--a decorated former Imperial soldier who raped and murdered at least ten women amidst the turmoil of post-war Tokyo. As he undertakes the case, Minami is haunted by his own memories of atrocities that he can no longer explain or forgive.

Author: David Peace
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 08/12/2008
Pages: 368
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.62lbs
Size: 7.98h x 5.26w x 0.82d
ISBN: 9780307276506

Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 08/24/2008 pg. 24

About the Author
David Peace is the author of The Red Riding Quartet, GB84, and The Damned Utd. He was chosen as one of Granta's 2003 Best Young British Novelists, and has received the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the German Crime Fiction Award, and the French Grand Prix de Roman Noir for Best Foreign Novel. Born and raised in Yorkshire, he has lived in Tokyo since 1994.