Tokyo - Softcover

Hayder, Mo

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0553814621 ISBN 13: 9780553814620

Publisher: Bantam Books (Transworld Publishers a division of the Random House Group), 2005

Synopsis

Student Grey Hutchins has come to Tokyo because of an obsession. Vulnerable and on the edge, she is searching for a fragment of film supposedly taken during the notorious Nanking Massacre in 1937 when the Japanese murdered 300,000 civilians. Some say the film doesn't exist. The only man who can help is a survivor of the Massacre. Immersed in his books and wary of strangers, this man will at first have nothing to do with Grey. Increasingly desperate, she accepts a hostess job at an exclusive nightspot catering for businessmen and gangsters, and it is here she comes to the attention of one particular man. Ancient, wheel-chair bound and guarded by a terrifying nurse, it is rumoured he relies on a strange elixir for his continued well-being - an elixir others want, at any price...With its heady atmosphere of overt violence, lurking fear and sexual tension, "Tokyo" grabs the reader and refuses to let go until its shattering final pages.

About this title

About the Author

The author of the acclaimed bestsellers BIRDMAN and THE TREATMENT, Mo Hayder was born in Essex. She left school at 15 and subsequently worked as a barmaid, security guard, film-maker, Tokyo club-hostess, educational administrator and teacher of English as a foreign language in Vietnam. She now writes full time.

From the Back Cover

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

Edition details

• Publisher: Bantam Books (Transworld Publishers a division of the Random House Group)
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0553814621
• ISBN 13: 9780553814620
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 464