Three Assassins
Published on 16. February 2023
Book
Paperback/Softback
304 pages
978-1-5291-1551-2 (ISBN)
Description
SUZUKI IS JUST AN ORDINARY MATHS TEACHER...UNTIL HIS WIFE IS MURDERED.
Seeking justice, he leaves his old life behind to infiltrate the criminal gang responsible. What he doesn't realise is that he's about to get drawn into a web of the most unusual professional assassins, each with their own agenda:
THE WHALE convinces his victims to take their own lives using just his words.
THE CICADA is a talkative and deadly knife expert.
THE PUSHER dispatches his targets in deadly traffic 'accidents'.
Suzuki must take on the three assassins to avenge his wife - but can he keep his innocence in a world of seasoned killers?
THEIR MISSION IS MURDER. HIS IS REVENGE.
Don't miss the next thrilling Kotaro Isaka book, HOTEL LUCKY SEVEN, available to pre-order now.
PRAISE FOR BULLET TRAIN:
'Unlike anything you're likely to have read before...white-hot with double-crosses' Financial Times
'Entertaining...high-speed...with lots of twists and turns...it has a Tarantino-meets-the-Coen-Brothers feel to it' The Times
Part high-octane thriller, part farce, this is an unusual and thoroughly enjoyable read' Guardian
The action accelerates up and down the ten carriages but the question is: who will get off alive? Daily Mail
Seeking justice, he leaves his old life behind to infiltrate the criminal gang responsible. What he doesn't realise is that he's about to get drawn into a web of the most unusual professional assassins, each with their own agenda:
THE WHALE convinces his victims to take their own lives using just his words.
THE CICADA is a talkative and deadly knife expert.
THE PUSHER dispatches his targets in deadly traffic 'accidents'.
Suzuki must take on the three assassins to avenge his wife - but can he keep his innocence in a world of seasoned killers?
THEIR MISSION IS MURDER. HIS IS REVENGE.
Don't miss the next thrilling Kotaro Isaka book, HOTEL LUCKY SEVEN, available to pre-order now.
PRAISE FOR BULLET TRAIN:
'Unlike anything you're likely to have read before...white-hot with double-crosses' Financial Times
'Entertaining...high-speed...with lots of twists and turns...it has a Tarantino-meets-the-Coen-Brothers feel to it' The Times
Part high-octane thriller, part farce, this is an unusual and thoroughly enjoyable read' Guardian
The action accelerates up and down the ten carriages but the question is: who will get off alive? Daily Mail
Reviews / Votes
Three Assassins...showcases Kotaro Isaka's Tarantinoesque blend of offbeat wit and stylised violence -- James Owen * The Times * [A] mesmerising tale of how life is simultaneously cheap and precious, and the past catches up with us all. -- Laura Wilson * Guardian * Highly entertaining... grips with plenty of twists before delivering a stylish and fitting finale -- Jon Coates * Sunday Express * Delivers an unusual journey. The eponymous killers - along with a man bent on paybackfor the death of his wife - are engaged in a dance of death * Financial Times * Isaka knows how to keep his readers on their toes. His characters are colourful, varied and morally despicable. * Crime Fiction Lover * Entertaining...high-speed...with lots of twists and turns...it has a Tarantino-meets-the-Coen-Brothers feel to it * The Times, on BULLET TRAIN * Unlike anything you're likely to have read before...white-hot with double-crosses * Financial Times, on BULLET TRAIN * High-octane...an unusual and thoroughly enjoyable read * Guardian, on BULLET TRAIN *
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Vintage Publishing
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 197 mm
Width: 128 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
214 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-5291-1551-2 (9781529115512)
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Kotaro Isaka
Three Assassins
A propulsive thriller from the Japanese bestseller and award-winning author of Bullet Train
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04/2022
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Kotaro Isaka is a bestselling and multi-award-winning writer who is published around the world. He has won the Shincho Mystery Club Award, Mystery Writers of Japan Award, Japan Booksellers' Award and the Yamamoto Shugoro Prize and fourteen of his books have been adapted for film or TV. He is the author of the international bestseller Bullet Train, which was made into a major film starring Brad Pitt and Sandra Bullock.
Sam Malissa holds a PhD in Japanese Literature from Yale University. He has translated fiction by Toshiki Okada, Shun Medoruma, and Hideo Furukawa, among others.
Sam Malissa holds a PhD in Japanese Literature from Yale University. He has translated fiction by Toshiki Okada, Shun Medoruma, and Hideo Furukawa, among others.