The Mantis by Kotaro Isaka - ISBN: 9781529920666
Paperback
Ordinary dad, extraordinary killer: can he protect his family?

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  • Paperback

    272 pages

  • Release Date

    6 August 2024

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Summary

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.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA DAGGER AWARD FOR BEST THRILLER

Kabuto is an ordinary guy; stressed with work, hassled by his wife and disrespected by his teenage son. No wonder he visits his doctor so often. Except the ‘Doctor’ is actually his handler, and Kabuto…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781529920666
ISBN-10:1529920663
Author:Kotaro Isaka, Sam Malissa
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Imprint:Vintage
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:272
Release Date:6 August 2024
Weight:198g
Dimensions:199mm x 129mm x 19mm
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Critics Review

An offbeat but touching thriller, with a wonderful final twist * Mail on Sunday *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 *

About The Author

Kotaro Isaka

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.

Sam Malissa (Translator)

Sam Malissa holds a PhD in Japanese Literature from Yale University. He has translated fiction by Toshiki Okada, Shun Medoruma, and Hideo Furukawa, among others.

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