British-born David Peace comes on like James Ellroy with a pint of warm Yorkshire ale in his hand. Like Ellroy’s, Peace’s novels are brittle, brutal dissections of societies, springing from true crimes. For more than a decade, Peace has chronicled the bloodstained history of his birthplace from his adopted home in Japan, and the payoff to that literary exile is Tokyo Year Zero.
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