{"product_id":"9780802122193","title":"The Devil of Nanking","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e“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.”— \u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“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 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGrey 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 gangster—an old man in a wheelchair surrounded by a terrifying entourage, rumored to rely on a powerful elixir for his continued health—might 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, \u003ci\u003eThe Devil of Nanking\u003c\/i\u003e is a tour de force that confirms Mo Hayder as a thriller writer of the first order.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003e“Wrenching . . . A beautifully controlled thriller about culture clash . . . Scary.”—Douglas Wolk, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“There is a terrible beauty to both narratives as they unfold toward an agonizing but inevitable conclusion, with the two stories dovetailing exquisitely . . . \u003ci\u003eThe Devil of Nanking\u003c\/i\u003e just may be one of the best books of the year.”—Tom and Enid Schantz, \u003ci\u003eThe Denver Post \u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pgw","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47016444920048,"sku":"9780802122193","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780802122193_p0.jpg?v=1763664561","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780802122193","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}