The Devil of Nanking is a thrilling novel by Mo Hayder that takes you on an electrifying literary ride from the palatial apartments of yakuza kingpins deep into the secret history of one of the twentieth century's most brutal events: the Nanking Massacre.

A young Englishwoman, obsessed with an indecipherable past, arrives in Tokyo seeking a lost piece of film footage of the notorious 1937 Nanking Massacre. This footage, some say, never existed. Only one man can help her—a survivor of the massacre, now a visiting professor at a university in Tokyo. However, he will have nothing to do with her.

In her quest, she accepts a job in an upmarket nightspot, where a certain gangster may hold the key to gaining the professor's trust. This old man in a wheelchair, surrounded by a terrifying entourage, is rumored to rely on a mysterious elixir for his continued health. Taut, gritty, sexy, and harrowing, this novel is an incomparable literary thriller set in one of the world's most fascinating cities—Tokyo.