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Tokyo Year Zero
Tokyo Year Zero, the first in David Peace’s fictional Tokyo trilogy, is an urban historical-murder-thriller. It is August 1946 and one year on from surrender, Tokyo lies broken and bleeding at the feet of the American victors ‘“ its police force is in chaos and various factions are fighting for control of the city’s black markets.Detective Minami is assigned to the case, much against his better wishes, tasked with solving the murders of two young women who have been found dead in Shiba Park. As he gets drawn deeper into the underworld of the horrific and complex murders, he realises that his own past and secrets are linked to those of the dead women and their killer.