A luxury hotel full of assassins - what could go wrong?

Nanao 'the unluckiest assassin in the world' has been hired to deliver a birthday present to a guest at a luxury Tokyo Hotel. It seems like a simple assignment but by the time he leaves the guest's room one man is dead and more will soon follow. As events spiral out of control as it becomes clear several different killers, with varying missions, are all taking a stay in the hotel at the same time. And they're all particularly interested in a young woman with a photographic memory, hiding out on one of the twenty floors.

Will Nanao find the truth about what's going on? And will he check out alive?

In this original, gripping and inventive follow-up to the international bestseller Bullet Train, Kotaro Isaka demonstrates his unparalleled gift for unique characters and unexpected twists.

'Unlike anything you're likely to have read before...white-hot with double-crosses' Financial Times, on BULLET TRAIN

'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

'Thoroughly enjoyable' Guardian, on BULLET TRAIN

'Showcases Kotaro Isaka's Tarantinoesque blend of offbeat wit and stylised violence' The Times, on THREE ASSASSINS

'An offbeat but touching thriller, with a wonderful final twist' Mail on Sunday, on THE MANTIS

About the Author

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 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.


Brian Bergstrom (Translator)
Brian Bergstrom is a Montreal-based lecturer and translator. His translations have appeared in publications including Granta, Aperture, Lit Hub, Mechademia, The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories and Elemental: Earth Stories. His translation of Trinity, Trinity, Trinity by Erika Kobayashi won the 2022 Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature. His most recent translation is Slow Down: How Degrowth Communism Can Save the Earth by Marxist philosopher Kohei Saito.

Reviews
Unlike anything you're likely to have read before. . . white-hot with double-crosses * Financial Times, on BULLET TRAIN *
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 *
Thoroughly enjoyable * Guardian, on BULLET TRAIN *
Showcases Kotaro Isaka's Tarantinoesque blend of offbeat wit and stylised violence * The Times, on THREE ASSASSINS *
An offbeat but touching thriller, with a wonderful final twist * Mail on Sunday, on THE MANTIS *



Book Information
ISBN 9781787304741
Author Kotaro Isaka
Format Hardback
Page Count 320
Imprint Harvill Secker
Publisher Vintage Publishing
Weight(grams) 500g
Dimensions(mm) 240mm * 156mm * 28mm