Tokyo Year Zero
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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.
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Deze serie duikt in het hart van Tokio na de oorlog, een stad verwoest door vernietiging en geteisterd door corruptie. Volg meeslepende onderzoeken naar brute misdaden terwijl rechercheurs zich verdiepen in de duistere krochten van de stad en hun eigen turbulente verleden. Ontdek complexe complotten waarbij de grenzen tussen goed en kwaad, realiteit en waan, vervagen. Het is een boeiende verkenning van de menselijke natuur op de proef gesteld te midden van chaos en geweld.
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Occupied City
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- 10 uur lezen
'We all know what this could be: we know it could be dysentery, we know it could be typhoid.
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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.
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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.