Occupied City (41 page)

I would like to thank the following people for all their help:

Nagashima Shunichiro, who once again provided and translated important documents from the Japanese; Mark Schreiber and Romain Slocombe, who both discussed the case with me and generously shared their own research; Stephen Page, Angus Cargill, Anna Pallai, Anne Owen, Sarah Savitt, Tanya Andrews, Trevor Horwood and all the staff of Faber and Faber in London; Sonny Mehta, Diana Coglianese, Sarah Robinson and Zach Wagman in New York. Once again, Sawa Junzo, Hamish Macaskill, Peter Thompson and all the staff of the English Agency Japan. Also in Tokyo, Simon Bartz, Steve Finbow, Mike and Mayu Handford, Kaetsu Kazuko, Cathy Layne, Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert and Steve Taylor. In England, my parents, Andrew Eaton, Tony Grisoni and Jon Riley. I would also like to particularly thank Lee Brackstone for both his patience and his belief in this book. Finally, and most of all, to William Miller, my agent, without whom this book would have been abandoned a lot, lot sooner.

David Peace is the author of
The Red Riding Quartet, GB84, The Damned Utd
, and
Tokyo Year Zero
. He was chosen as one of
Granta’
s Best Young British Novelists in 2003, and has received the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the German Crime Fiction Award, and the French Grand Prix de Roman Noir for Best Foreign Novel.

THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK
PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF

Copyright © 2009 by David Peace

All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
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Originally published in Great Britain by Faber and Faber Ltd., London, in 2009.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Peace, David.
Occupied city / by David Peace. — 1st American ed.
p. cm.
First published: London : Faber and Faber, 2009.
eISBN: 978-0-307-59319-1
1. Hirasawa, Sadamichi, 1982– —Fiction. 2. Criminals—Japan—
Tokyo—Fiction. 3. Serial murders—Japan—Tokyo—Fiction.
4. Bank robberies—Fiction. 5. Tokyo (Japan)—Fiction. I. Title.
PR6066.E116O25 2010
823′.914—dc22    2009043254

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

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