Seesaw Monster
  • Published: 8 July 2025
  • ISBN: 9781787304734
  • Imprint: Harvill Secker
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $34.99

Seesaw Monster

  • Kotaro Isaka
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8 Jul 2025
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3 Jul 2025
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3 Jul 2025
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3 Aug 2025
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Two inventive tales of espionage in one, from the internationally bestselling author of Japanese fiction sensation Bullet Train

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.
  • Published: 8 July 2025
  • ISBN: 9781787304734
  • Imprint: Harvill Secker
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $34.99
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Praise for Seesaw Monster

Thoroughly enjoyable

Guardian, on BULLET TRAIN

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

An offbeat but touching thriller, with a wonderful final twist

Mail on Sunday, on THE MANTIS

Isaka’s exceptional latest combines the author’s flair for violent comic farce with an unsettling look at the near future. Isaka’s talent for kinetic, hilarious carnage is on full display, and it’s fortified with philosophical depth and surprisingly potent ruminations on the nature of fate. This ranks among the author’s best

Publishers Weekly

Fascinating and thought provoking with some genuine surprises and incredibly clever ideas that kept me thinking about it long after I finished it… a Japanese Black Mirror!

Ajay Chowdhury, author of THE WAITER
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