{"product_id":"tokyo-redux-david-peace-author-9780571359127","title":"Tokyo Redux","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Occupation had a hangover, but still the Occupation went to work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTokyo, July 1949, President Shimoyama, Head of the National Railways of Japan, goes missing just a day after serving notice of 30,000 job losses. In the midst of the US Occupation, against the backdrop of widespread social, political and economic reforms - as tensions and confusion reign - American Detective Harry Sweeney leads the missing person's investigation for General MacArthur's GHQ.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSome men go mad, some men go missing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFifteen years later and Tokyo is booming. As the city prepares for the 1964 Olympics and the global spotlight, Hideki Murota, a former policeman during the Occupation period, and now a private investigator, is given a case which forces him to go back to confront a time, a place and a crime he's been hiding from for the past fifteen years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSome men do both.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOver twenty years later, in the autumn and winter of 1988, as the Emperor Showa is dying, Donald Reichenbach, an aging American, eking out a living teaching and translating, sits drinking by the Shinobazu Pond in Ueno, knowing the final reckoning of the greatest mystery of the Showa Era is down to him.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Another typically brilliant and idiosyncratic neo noir from one of our finest novelists. A murder mystery set in 1949 Japan during the US occupation it has all of Peace's usual flair for language and characterization with an additional delicious layer of Pynchonesque baroque conspiracy. I loved it.' - Adrian McKinty\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David Peace (Author)","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":43176765456627,"sku":"9780571359127","price":29.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/products\/9780571359127.jpg?v=1662089114","url":"https:\/\/www.harryhartog.com.au\/products\/tokyo-redux-david-peace-author-9780571359127","provider":"Harry Hartog Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}