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Three Assassins

Three Assassins

A propulsive new thriller from the bestselling author of BULLET TRAIN

Summary

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

Reviews

  • Three Assassins...showcases Kotaro Isaka's Tarantinoesque blend of offbeat wit and stylised violence
    James Owen, The Times

About the author

Kotaro Isaka

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.
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