Tokyo - Couverture souple

Hayder, Mo

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0593049705 ISBN 13 : 9780593049709

Editeur : Bantam Press, 2004

Synopsis

Student Grey Hutchins comes to Tokyo seeking answers to what happened during the notorious Nanking Massacre in which, in one city, the Imperial Japanese Army killed up to 300,000 civilians. Only one man can help her, a survivor of the Massacre, and now a visiting professor at the prestigious university of Todai in Tokyo: a man who is rumoured to possess documentary evidence of Nanking. But first Grey must gain his trust. Increasingly desperate and alone, she accepts a job as a hostess at the 'Some Like It Hot' club, an upmarket nightspot catering for Japanese businessmen and wealthy gangsters. One gangster dominates - an old man in a wheelchair guarded by a nurse with sharpened teeth - said to rely on a powerful elixir for his continued wealth and well-being. It is an elixir which other members of the club want for themselves at any price...

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture

'A real page turner...that turns the blood cold' MINETTE WALTERS

Grey has come to Tokyo in pursuit of an obsession. She is searching for a lost piece of film supposedly taken during the infamous Nanking Massacre in 1937. Some say the film never existed.

The only man who can help is a survivor of the massacre. Now working at the university in Tokyo, immersed in his books and wary of strangers, he will at first have nothing to do with her.

Desperate and alone in this alien city, Grey accepts a job as a hostess in an exclusive club catering for Japanese businessmen and gangsters. There she comes to the attention of one particular gangster. Ancient, wheelchair-bound and surrounded by a terrifying entourage, he is rumoured to rely on a strange elixir for his continued health - an elixir others want, at any price... And it is there Grey unearths the horror that links the present with the past...

Présentation de l'éditeur

Grey has come to Tokyo in pursuit of a past she doesn’tunderstand, searching for a lost piece of film supposedly taken during theinfamous Nanking Massacre in 1937. But the only man who can help her won’t.Increasingly desperate in an alien city, Grey takes a job at an unsavoury club.There, one terrifying customer, rumoured to possess a secret health elixir,becomes suddenly interested in her. Now Grey is about to uneart  the horrorthat links the present with the past.

A finalist for three British Crime Writers’ Association Daggerawards, The Devil of Nanking is a harrowing look at life, deathand the relentless power of the past.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Bantam Press
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0593049705
• ISBN 13: 9780593049709
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 368
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible