The Devil of Nanking, Paperback

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Dazzling . . . In this extremely creepy book, Hayder s third, the diabolically gifted British author spins a fascinating mystery from the legacy of Japanese atrocities during World War II. ""Entertainment Weekly"" A haunting, lyrical, disturbing, important, suspenseful, wonderfully written and beautiful book. You will love reading it, and you will not soon forget the experience. Harlan Coben Grey has a lot to prove and even more to hide. A young Englishwoman obsessed with a past she cannot understand, she has come to Tokyo following rumors of a rare piece of film footage shot during the notorious Nanking Massacre in 1937, which has been lost for decades. But the only man who can help, a survivor of the massacre and now a visiting professor at a prestigious Tokyo university, will have nothing to do with her. Increasingly desperate in an alien city, Grey accepts a job as a hostess in an upmarket nightspot catering to Japanese businessmen and wealthy yakuza, where one gangsteran old man in a wheelchair surrounded by a terrifying entourage, rumored to rely on a powerful elixir for his continued healthmight be the key to the answers Grey seeks. Taut and gritty, with the redolent atmosphere of Ian Rankin and the spine-tingling characters of Thomas Harris, ""The Devil of Nanking"" is a tour de force that confirms Mo Hayder as a thriller writer of the first order. Wrenching . . . A beautifully controlled thriller about culture clash . . . Scary. Douglas Wolk, ""The New York Times Book Review"" There is a terrible beauty to both narratives as they unfold toward an agonizing but inevitable conclusion, with the two stories dovetailing exquisitely . . . ""The Devil of Nanking"" just may be one of the best books of the year. Tom and Enid Schantz, ""The Denver Post ""