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It's Tokyo, January 26th, 1948. As the third year of the US Occupation of Japan begins, a man enters a downtown bank. He speaks of an outbreak of dysentery and says he is a doctor, sent by the Occupation authorities, to treat anyone who might have been exposed. Clear liquid is poured into sixteen teacups. Sixteen employees of the bank drink this liquid according to strict instructions. Within minutes twelve of them are dead, the other four unconscious. The man disappears along with some, but not all, of the bank's money. And so begins the biggest manhunt in Japanese history. In "Occupied City", David Peace dramatises and explores the rumours of complicity, conspiracy and cover-up that surround the chilling case of the Teikoku Bank Massacre: of the man who was convicted of the crime, of the legacy of biological warfare programmes, and of the victims and survivors themselves.

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: Occupied City
• Author: David Peace
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304
• EAN: 9780571232031
• ISBN: 0571232035
• ID: 04103207
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Weight: 244 g
• Dimensions: 197 × 129 × 21 mm
• Date of publishing: 24. December 2009

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