The devil of Nanking
About this book
Now reissued as a B-format paperback, an extraordinary, electrifying thriller by one of Britain's bestselling crime-writers.Tokyo, 1990Grey Hutchins is in pursuit of an obsession. She is searching for a piece of film taken during the infamous Nanking massacre of 1937. Some say it never existed. Grey is certain that it does, and that it lies hidden - somewhere in Tokyo.Alone in an alien city, Grey becomes a hostess in an exclusive club catering for Japanese businessmen - and gangsters. One gangster dominates – an old man in a wheelchair surrounded by a terrifying entourage – who is rumoured to rely on a powerful elixir for his continued health. It is an elixir that others want - at any price ...With its focus on 1990's Tokyo and Nanking in 1937, The Devil of Nanking is a literary thriller of the highest order. With its heady atmosphere of overt violence, lurking fear and sexual tension, this is a novel that takes hold of the reader and does not let go until its explosive final pages.
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- british
- college teachers
- college teachers, fiction
- crime & mystery
- criminals
- criminals, fiction
- escort services
- fiction
- fiction / crime
- fiction, suspense
- fiction / thrillers / general
- fiction / thrillers / suspense
- japan, fiction
- music-halls (variety-theaters, cabarets, etc.)
- mystery
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- nanking massacre, nanjing, jiangsu sheng, china, 1937
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- organized crime
- sino-japanese conflict, 1937-1945
- sino-japanese war, 1937-1945
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- suspense fiction
- thriller
- tokyo (japan), fiction
- young women
- young women, fiction