Tokyo Year Zero Book One of the Tokyo Trilogy

It's August 1946one year after the Japanese surrenderand women are turning up dead all over Tokyo. Detective Minami of the Tokyo Metropolitan Policeirreverent, angry, despairinggoes on the hunt for a killer known as the Japanese Bluebearda 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. Unblinking in its vision of a nation in a chaotic, hellish period in its history,Tokyo Year Zerois a darkly lyrical and stunningly original crime novel. From the Trade Paperback edition.

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.