David Peace - Occupied City

The films and diaries of Andrei Tarkovsky

The plays and texts of Heiner Müller; particularly Elio De Capitani’s production of Waterfront Wasteland Medea Material Landscape with Argonauts at the Teatro dell’Elfo, Milan, in 2006

The poems and prose of Paul Celan

Unit 731 by Peter Williams and David Wallace (The Free Press, 1989)

Unit 731 Testimony by Hal Gold (Yenbooks, 1996)

A Universal History of Iniquity by Jorge Luis Borges, translated by Andrew Hurley, in Collected Fictions (Penguin, 1999)

Ware, Shisu-tomo Meimoku-sezu: Hirasawa Sadamichi Gokuchu-ki edited by Hirasawa Takehiko (Mainichi Shimbunsha, 1988)

Woyzeck by Georg Büchner, translated by John Mackendrick, in The Complete Plays edited by Michael Patterson (Methuen, 1987)

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.