Three Assassins
  • Published: 20 June 2023
  • ISBN: 9781529115512
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $22.99

Three Assassins

A propulsive new thriller from the bestselling author of BULLET TRAIN

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Their mission is murder. His is revenge. A propulsive thriller from the prizewinning author of Bullet Train.

SUZUKI IS JUST AN ORDINARY MATHS TEACHER...UNTIL HIS WIFE IS MURDERED.

Seeking justice, he leaves his old life behind to infiltrate the criminal gang responsible. What he doesn't realise is that he's about to get drawn into a web of the most unusual professional assassins, each with their own agenda:

THE WHALE convinces his victims to take their own lives using just his words.

THE CICADA is a talkative and deadly knife expert.

THE PUSHER dispatches his targets in deadly traffic 'accidents'.

Suzuki must take on the three assassins to avenge his wife - but can he keep his innocence in a world of seasoned killers?

THEIR MISSION IS MURDER. HIS IS REVENGE.

Don’t miss the next thrilling Kotaro Isaka book, HOTEL LUCKY SEVEN, available to pre-order now.

PRAISE FOR BULLET TRAIN:

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

'Entertaining...high-speed...with lots of twists and turns...it has a Tarantino-meets-the-Coen-Brothers feel to it' The Times

Part high-octane thriller, part farce, this is an unusual and thoroughly enjoyable read' Guardian

The action accelerates up and down the ten carriages but the question is: who will get off alive? Daily Mail
  • Published: 20 June 2023
  • ISBN: 9781529115512
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $22.99
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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 Three Assassins

Isaka knows how to keep his readers on their toes. His characters are colourful, varied and morally despicable.

Crime Fiction Lover

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

Unlike anything you're likely to have read before...white-hot with double-crosses

Financial Times, on BULLET TRAIN

High-octane...an unusual and thoroughly enjoyable read

Guardian, on BULLET TRAIN

[A] mesmerising tale of how life is simultaneously cheap and precious, and the past catches up with us all.

Laura Wilson, Guardian

Three Assassins...showcases Kotaro Isaka's Tarantinoesque blend of offbeat wit and stylised violence

James Owen, The Times

Delivers an unusual journey. The eponymous killers - along with a man bent on payback for the death of his wife - are engaged in a dance of death

Financial Times

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

Jon Coates, Sunday Express
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