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A propulsive new thriller from the bestselling author of BULLET TRAIN

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Inventive fun… quirky charm and dark humour… his sense of glee is infectious

If you were a fan of Bullet Train then you’ll love Kotaro Isaka’s follow-up… the twists and turns make this a lively read

Full of narrative twists and colourful characters

Isaka takes readers on a furious cat-and-mouse race through the luxury hotel… a near-perfect thriller.

Isaka’s style is terse, laden with dark humor expressed with a flat affect — just the right tone for a book that walks the line between comedy and violence.”

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

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

Showcases Kotaro Isaka's Tarantinoesque blend of offbeat wit and stylised violence

An offbeat but touching thriller, with a wonderful final twist

A thriller on amphetamines, fresh and fun and full-throttle -- both a giddy romp and an unexpectedly involving crash course in human nature. This is a hotel fans of Quentin Tarantino and Martin McDonagh will want to check into.

A. J. Finn, bestselling author of THE WOMAN IN THE WINDOW

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 luxury Tokyo hotel. 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 that several different killers are taking a stay in the hotel at the same time. And they're all looking for 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? 
 
PRAISE FOR KOTARO ISAKA: 
 
‘Inventive fun...dark humour’ The Times 
 
‘Fresh and fun and full-throttle’ A. J. Finn, bestselling author of The Woman in the Window 
 
‘The twists and turns make this a lively read’ Daily Mirror 
 
‘A near-perfect thriller' Booklist 
 
‘Laden with dark humour’ New York Times Book Review

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 Montréal-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.

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Inventive fun… quirky charm and dark humour… his sense of glee is infectious

If you were a fan of Bullet Train then you’ll love Kotaro Isaka’s follow-up… the twists and turns make this a lively read

Full of narrative twists and colourful characters

Isaka takes readers on a furious cat-and-mouse race through the luxury hotel… a near-perfect thriller.

Isaka’s style is terse, laden with dark humor expressed with a flat affect — just the right tone for a book that walks the line between comedy and violence.”

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

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

Thoroughly enjoyable

Showcases Kotaro Isaka's Tarantinoesque blend of offbeat wit and stylised violence

An offbeat but touching thriller, with a wonderful final twist

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