by Mo Hayder · Bantam Press · tapa dura · ISBN 9780593049693
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«Tokyo» is the thriller and horror novel by Mo Hayder, published by Bantam Press in hardback (368 pages, in English).
Student Grey Hutchins travels to Tokyo obsessed with locating a film related to the 1937 Nanking massacre. Her search leads her to a scholarly professor and an elderly gangster in a wheelchair, while she takes work as a hostess in an exclusive nightclub. The plot, set between the Tokyo of the eighties and the China of the thirties, combines suspense, violence, fear and sexual tension.
Supplier records cite a 2004 edition, first edition. It is related to the Jack Caffery literary saga, published as «Tokyo» and also as «The Devil of Nanking».
Recommended for readers of literary thrillers and suspense novels with historical background and unsettling atmosphere.
Beatrice Clare Dunkel was a British author. Earlier in her life she worked as an actress and model under the name Candy Davis and appeared as Miss Belfridge in the BBC sitcom Are You Being Served? for two series. She went on to write novels as Mo Hayder. She won an Edgar Award in 2012.
