Tokyo Redux: A novel (Tokyo Trilogy)

Product Description
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.\nTokyo, 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.\nSpanning 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.\nThe 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.
Review
"Peace's most James Ellroy-like book yet . . . a powerful, stirring read." —John Self,
The Times (London)\n""The details are meticulously researched...The effect is one of transfixing veracity...Repetition and rhyme, trusted Peace techniques (some might say tics), give the prose an incantatory rhythm and an epic feel...Many novels are hyped as “polyphonic”, but Peace’s now complete Tokyo trilogy truly is, brilliantly summoning forth multiple voices in the soundscape of a city gripped by seismic change." —Tanjil Rashid,
The Guardian\n"Peace [is] near his best in this powerful, overwhelming novel, in which genre excitement steadily gives way to the uncannier frisson of being plugged into a current of secret knowledge." —Anthony Cummins,
The Observer\n"A brisk and atmospheric true-crime thriller." —
Kirkus Reviews\n"David Peace has always been a novelist of stamina, scale and historical ambition." —Jude Cook,
Literary Review
"Another typically brilliant and idiosyncratic neo noir from one of our finest novelists. A murder mystery set in 1949 Japan during the US occupation it has all of Peace's usual flair for language and characterization with an additional delicious layer of Pynchonesque baroque conspiracy. I loved it." -- Adrian McKinty, best-selling author of
The Chain
About the Author
DAVID PEACE is the author of
Patient X; the Red Riding Quartet (
Nineteen Seventy-Four, Nineteen Seventy-Seven, Nineteen Eighty, and
Nineteen Eighty-Three);
GB84, which was awarded the James Tait Black Prize for Fiction;
The Damned Utd; and
Red or Dead, which was short-listed for the Goldsmiths Prize.
Tokyo Redux is the final part of his Tokyo Trilogy, following
Tokyo Year Zero and
Occupied City. He lives in Tokyo.
Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
Chapter 1\nThe First Day\nJuly 5, 1949\nThe Occupation had a hangover, but still the Occupation went to work: with gray stubble shadows and damp sweat stains, heels and soles up stairs and down corridors, toilets flushing and faucets running, doors opening and doors closing, cabinets and drawers, windows wide and fans turning, fountain pens scratching and typewriter keys banging, telephones ringing and a voice calling out, For you, Harry.\nOn the fourth floor of the NYK building, in the enormous office that was Room 432 of the Public