From one of Granta's 2003 Best Young British Novelists comes this electrifying novel--fiction generated by fact--that revisits a series of shocking crimes committed in American Occupied Tokyo post-World War II.

On August 15th, 1946--the first anniversary of the Japanese surrender--the partially decomposed bodies of two women are found in the ruins of Zojoji Temple in central Tokyo. They have been raped and strangled--and they are only the first. More bodies will be found killed in the same way, and by the same hand. The irreverent, angry, despairing yet determined Detective Minami narrates the riveting story of the hunt for the Japanese Bluebeard, as well as telling his own story of struggles with haunting memories.

A story told with demanding power, written in a telegraphic, darkly lyrical language, shot through with wry humor, unblinking in its vision of the chaos left in the wake of war and of the moral and psychological corruption it engenders-- Tokyo Year Zero is blistering and unforgettable, a stunningly original crime novel.

戴维·皮斯，1967年生于约克郡，作家、编剧，在东京生活了十几年。2003年被《格兰塔》文学杂志评选为英国最佳青年作者。著有《血色侦程》四部曲（Red Riding Quartet），后被改编为同名电影；第五部小说GB84于2004年获詹姆斯·泰特·布莱克纪念奖；他所撰写的布莱恩·克拉夫的虚构传记小说《魔鬼联队》（The Damned Utd）也受到高度赞誉；而《红或死》（Red or Dead）则入围2013年的金史密斯奖。