Patient X

by David Peace

  NINETEEN SEVENTY FOUR

  NINETEEN SEVENTY SEVEN

  NINETEEN EIGHTY

  NINETEEN EIGHTY THREE

  GB84

  THE DAMNED UTD

  TOKYO YEAR ZERO

  OCCUPIED CITY

  RED OR DEAD

  Copyright

  First published in the UK in 2018

  by Faber & Faber Ltd

  Bloomsbury House

  74–77 Great Russell Street

  London WC1B 3DA

  Typeset by Ian Bahrami

  This ebook edition first published in 2018

  All rights reserved

  © David Peace, 2018

  Design by Luke Bird

  Front cover image: hand-coloured Meiji Era photograph of Shinobazu, Tokyo. Public domain.

  Back cover: Kappa drawing by Ryunosuke Akutagawa, courtesy of the author

  The right of David Peace to be identified as author of this work has been asserted in accordance with Section 77 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988

  This ebook is copyright material and must not be copied, reproduced, transferred, distributed, leased, licensed or publicly performed or used in any way except as specifically permitted in writing by the publishers, as allowed under the terms and conditions under which it was purchased or as strictly permitted by applicable copyright law. Any unauthorised distribution or use of this text may be a direct infringement of the author’s and publisher’s rights, and those responsible may be liable in law accordingly

  ISBN 978–0–571–33365–3