This is the book I just finished reading in like three days. I have a paperback addition and it looks different. This book was good, highly disturbing, sickening, thrilling, suspensful, and powerful. If you can get past two words coming up in the same sentence in this book like cannobolism and babies then you should be able to read it. It still leaves you feeling pretty sick to your stomach in parts though, but once you realize what is going on you are into the story and can't put it down. Pretty much there are two different stories going on at once, the first in Nanking (Nanjing) in 1937 during the Japanese takeover and massacre and the other is in modern day Tokyo in the year 1990. It is a story about a young British woman who goes to Tokyo to do research about what happened in Nanking in 1937 to prove to herself and everyone that she is not crazy. There are a lot of issues going on with her that develop as this story goes that intertwine with the this Chinese professor she goes to see to see a video from Nanking in 1937. Well, he won't let her see it and says okay but you have to do something else for me. This leads her to working as a hostess in a shady Japanese men's club and leads her to the Japanese mafia I guess. This story is fiction, but in 1937 and throughout the twentith century up until the Japense were defefated in WWII, the Japanese did try and did invade a lot of China and Korea, etc. So, if you are into being disturbed and shook up but in an almost powerful important way then read this book!