Point Zero

**A triumph** **by Seicho Matsumoto (1909-1992)****,** **the master of Japanese mystery writing** **. A** **beautifully written novel that takes on the taboo of Japanese prostitution catering to GIs during the American post-war occupation.**
Tokyo 1958, Teiko marries Kenichi Uehara, ten years her senior, an advertising man recommended by an intermediary. After a four-day honeymoon, Kenichi vanishes. Keito travels to the coastal and snow-bound city of Kanazawa, where Kenishi was last seen, to investigate his disappearance. She discovers that he had been a police officer in Tokyo after the war, keeping watch over *pan pan* girls, Japanese prostitutes catering to GIs. Some of these women have created a new life in Kanazawa and may have taken extreme measures to hide their past.