For a thrilling ride, pick up Bullet Train by Kotaro Isaka, a high-octane thriller set on a Japanese bullet train with multiple deadly assassins. This international bestseller keeps you on the edge of your seat from start to finish.
Product Information: Five killers. One train journey. But who will survive? The original and propulsive thriller from a massive Japanese bestseller.
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Satoshi looks like an innocent schoolboy but he is really a viciously cunning psychopath. Kimura's young son is in a coma thanks to him, and Kimura has tracked him onto the bullet train heading from Tokyo to Morioka to exact his revenge. But Kimura soon discovers that they are not the only dangerous passengers onboard.
Nanao, the self-proclaimed 'unluckiest assassin in the world', and the deadly partnership of Tangerine and Lemon are also travelling to Morioka. A suitcase full of money leads others to show their hands. Why are they all on the same train, and who will get off alive at the last station?
'A locked-room crime drama played out at 200mph' The Times
'A high-octane thriller... Thoroughly enjoyable' Guardian
Readers can't stop reading Bullet Train!
Bullet Train was originally published in Japan with the title Maria Beetle.
Other Information: Kotaro Isaka (Author) 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 twelve 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 in 2022.
Sam Malissa (Translator) 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.
