In The Miso Soup by Ryu Murakami
This book was written in 1997 and translated into English in 2003. A young Japanese tour guide who specialises in personal tours gets the experience of his life when he becomes the guide to the seedy Tokyo underbelly for an American tourist.
The tourist turns out to be a violent, psychotic killer of the worst kind - the kind that kills for pleasure. The tour guide is made to witness the killings and has to struggle to stay alive to get away or get the police, neither of which he seems to have a chance of doing. We are given front-row seats into the killer’s mind when he recounts his spine-chilling journey to become what he is today.
This book is not for the faint hearted or for reading over lunch as descriptions of gruesome killings are detailed and extended.
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