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Seesaw Monster

Seesaw Monster

Summary

Two inventive tales of espionage in one, from the internationally bestselling author of Japanese fiction sensation Bullet Train

In Japan's recent past, Miyako suspects her mother-in-law is a murderer. She uses her secret skills as an ex-spy to investigate her, while trying to maintain a peaceful home life.

And in Japan's not-too-distant future, a courier named Mito finds himself embroiled in the death of the developer of a sinister AI surveillance system.

Seesaw Monster contains two sharp, thrilling novellas from the bestselling and multi-award-winning writer Kotaro Isaka.

Reviews

  • Thoroughly enjoyable
    Guardian, on BULLET TRAIN

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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