What often grates me about David Peace’s endless style of repetition works here. Whereas his Red Riding Quartet was full of a bunch of self-loathing white policemen and journalists who couldn’t deal in a world their fathers had built, Tokyo Year Zero has a more compelling lead detective: a man who may or may not have committed a war crime in China now operating as a police officer in the first year of Allied occupation in Tokyo. His nation has lost and must now deal with […]
To The Victors Go
Tokyo Year Zero by David Peace
