The Mantis
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  • Published: 9 November 2023
  • ISBN: 9781529911657
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $29.99

The Mantis

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6 Aug 2024
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9 Nov 2023
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9 Nov 2023
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Good dad or good assassin? Can he be both?: From the internationally bestselling author of BULLET TRAIN.

Good dad or good assassin? Can he be both?

From the internationally bestselling author of BULLET TRAIN: A seemingly ordinary family man tries to juggle his home life with his job as a hitman.

Picture a mantis raising up its blades. It looks fearsome, but it's still just a tiny insect. The mantis actually thinks it can win. Even though it's tiny, it's still ready to fight to the death.

Kabuto is an ordinary guy; stressed with work, hassled by his wife and disrespected by his son. No wonder he visits his doctor so often. Except 'the Doctor' is actually his handler, and Kabuto is a hired assassin. The 'prescriptions' the Doctor hands over are his unlucky targets. Because although Kabuto may seem like a small man at home, he's really good at killing people.

But Kabuto is worn out with the business of murder. He's trying to pay his way out of the Doctor's employment with a few last jobs. But the most lucrative contracts involve taking out other professional assassins and his final assignment puts both him and his family in danger.
  • Published: 9 November 2023
  • ISBN: 9781529911657
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $29.99
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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 twelve of his books have been adapted for film or TV. He is the author of the internationall bestseller Bullet Train.

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Praise for The Mantis

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

Highly entertaining... grips with plenty of twists before delivering a stylish and fitting finale

Sunday Express, on Three Assassins

An offbeat but touching thriller, with a wonderful final twist

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