The Devil of Nanking - Couverture souple

'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...

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.