Kuronoshio
ASIN: B00J1S5ZCK
Publisher: unknown
Pages: 307
Participation is compulsory. Time is limited. One survives.
Victorious in the Second World War, Japan's pan-Asian empire is ruled by the Technicians. Criminals, the mentally ill and the unpatriotic are rounded up to undergo personality adjustment, a brutal process in which one hundred people are forced to prove their loyalty by obeying a series of increasingly horrific orders.
When Sakura Kobayashi is taken, she knows that her chances of survival are low as she struggles against a cynical system of mind-control, ethnic discrimination and state terror.
Cut, kiss, kill, eat - sex, murder, betrayal.
Failure to obey is punished by death.
Only one can survive.
"Mix ultra-cool Japanese Science Fiction like ‘Battle Royale’, ‘Ghost In The Shell’ or even ‘Appleseed’, with ‘The Hunger Games’ and you end up with a novel like ‘The Loyalty Tests’.
Truly unsettling, gritty dystopian S.F that will ...