Bullet train : a novel / Kotaro Isaka ; translated from the Japanese by Sam Malissa.
Nanao, nicknamed Lady Bird--the self-proclaimed "unluckiest assassin in the world"--boards a bullet train from Tokyo to Morioka with one simple task: grab a suitcase and get off at the next stop. Unbeknownst to him, the deadly duo Tangerine and Lemon are also after the very same suitcase--and they are not the only dangerous passengers onboard. Satoshi, "the Prince," with the looks of an innocent schoolboy and the mind of a viciously cunning psychopath, is also in the mix and has history with some of the others. Risk fuels him as does a good philosophical debate ... like, is killing really wrong? Chasing the Prince is another assassin with a score to settle for the time the Prince casually pushed a young boy off of a roof, leaving him comatose. When the five assassins discover they are all on the same train, they realize their missions are not as unrelated as they first appear. A massive bestseller in Japan, Bullet Train is an original and propulsive thriller that fizzes with an incredible energy and surprising humor as its complex net of double-crosses and twists unwind. Award-winning author Kotaro Isaka takes readers on a tension packed journey as the bullet train hurtles toward its final destination. Who will make it off the train alive--and what awaits them at the last stop?
Record details
- ISBN: 9781419756337 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 415 pages ; 25 cm
- Publisher: New York : The Overlook Press, 2021.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Originally published in Japanese: Tokyo : Kadokawa, 2010. Translation of: Maria Bītoru. |
Language Note: | In English, translated from the Japanese. |
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Subject: | Assassins > Fiction. Coma > Patients > Family relationships > Fiction. High speed trains > Japan > Fiction. Psychopaths > Fiction. Revenge > Fiction. Teenage boys > Fiction. |
Genre: | Thrillers (Fiction) |
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