Peace 's novel '' Red or Dead '' , about Bill Shankly and the rise of Liverpool Football Club , was published in August 2013 and was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize that year . '' Tokyo Year Zero '' ( 2007 ) follows the investigations of a Tokyo detective in the aftermath of Japan 's defeat in World War II . It is based on the true story of serial killer Yoshio Kodaira . It is the first of Peace 's novels to be set outside of Yorkshire and forms the first part of a trio of books on the U.S. military occupation of Japan . The second book , published in August 2009 , is called '' Occupied City '' , a '' Rashomon '' - like telling of the Hirasawa Sadamichi case in Tokyo in 1948 . The final volume of the Tokyo trilogy will be published in 2020 . As a separate stand alone novel , but set in Japan , '' Patient X '' , was published in 2018 . Subtitled '' The Case-Book of Ryūnosuke Akutagawa '' , it follows the life of author Akutagawa from his childhood to his suicide in 1927 , including his witnessing of the Great Kantō earthquake that devastated most of Tokyo and much of the surrounding region in 1923
Great Kantō earthquake
1923 Great Kantō earthquake
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