A thrilling postmodern noir about the real-life disappearance, in
1949, of one of Japan's most powerful figures, and the three men who
try--and fail--to crack the case. Tokyo, July 1949. The president of
the National Railways of Japan vanishes. As American and Japanese
investigators scrambled for answers, the case went cold--and it
remains unsolved to this day. In Tokyo Redux, celebrated crime writer
David Peace channels drama, research, and intrigue into this
strikingly intelligent fictionalization of Japan's most enduring and
haunting mystery. Spanning decades, Peace's novel reveals how the
lives of three men all come to revolve around the same inexpicable
disappearance. Starting in American-occupied Tokyo, where tension and
confusion reign, American detective Harry Sweeney leads the
missing-person investigation for General MacArthur's GHQ. Fifteen
years later, as Tokyo prepares for the global spotlight as host of the
summer Olympics, private investigator Murota Hideki--who was a
policeman during the Occupation--is confronted by this very same case,
and is forced to address something he's been hiding for more than a
decade. And twenty-plus years after that, as Emperor Shōwa lays
dying, Donald Reichenbach, an aging American eking out a living in
Japan teaching and translating, discovers that the final reckoning of
the greatest mystery of the era is now in his hands. The concluding
installment of Peace’s acclaimed Tokyo Trilogy, Tokyo Redux is a
page-turning portrait of post-World War II Tokyo and an inside look
into a storied crime that continues to haunt multiple generations.
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ISBN
9781101947784
Publisert
2019
Utgiver
Random House Digital Inc.
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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