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The Devil of Nanking

The Devil of Nanking

Hayder, Mo

Paperback

Mystery & ThrillerGeneral Fiction

Publisher Price: $19.00

ISBN10: 0802122191
ISBN13: 9780802122193
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: Jan 14 2014
Pages: 384
Weight: 0.75
Height: 1.10 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.20
Language: English
Dazzling . . . In this extremely creepy book, Hayder's third, the diabolically gifted British author spins a fascinating mystery from the legacy of Japanese atrocities during World War II.--Entertainment Weekly

A haunting, lyrical, disturbing, important, suspenseful, wonderfully written and beautiful book. You will love reading it, and you will not soon forget the experience.--Harlan Coben

Grey has a lot to prove and even more to hide. A young Englishwoman obsessed with a past she cannot understand, she has come to Tokyo following rumors of a rare piece of film footage shot during the notorious Nanking Massacre in 1937, which has been lost for decades. But the only man who can help, a survivor of the massacre and now a visiting professor at a prestigious Tokyo university, will have nothing to do with her. Increasingly desperate in an alien city, Grey accepts a job as a hostess in an upmarket nightspot catering to Japanese businessmen and wealthy yakuza, where one gangster--an old man in a wheelchair surrounded by a terrifying entourage, rumored to rely on a powerful elixir for his continued health--might be the key to the answers Grey seeks. Taut and gritty, with the redolent atmosphere of Ian Rankin and the spine-tingling characters of Thomas Harris, The Devil of Nanking is a tour de force that confirms Mo Hayder as a thriller writer of the first order.

Wrenching . . . A beautifully controlled thriller about culture clash . . . Scary.--Douglas Wolk, The New York Times Book Review

There is a terrible beauty to both narratives as they unfold toward an agonizing but inevitable conclusion, with the two stories dovetailing exquisitely . . . The Devil of Nanking just may be one of the best books of the year.--Tom and Enid Schantz, The Denver Post

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