Bullet Train

An entertaining thriller... Kill Bill on wheels or a locked-room crime drama played out at 200mph

An entertaining thriller... Kill Bill on wheels or a locked-room crime drama played out at 200mph

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.

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

The action accelerates up and down the ten carriages but the question is: who will get off alive?

As the body count increases Isaka introduces new characters and juggles the survivors' storylines adroitly.

A highly original take on the locked-room mystery: twisty, funny and horrifying in its examination of organised crime, bullying, bad luck and psychopathy

Breakneck pacing, masterful character development, and well-timed comic relief set Isaka's
pitch-perfect (and seamlessly translated) thriller up for blockbuster status...a twisty, darkly hilarious game of musical chairs

Impressive...Isaka keeps the suspense high throughout. Fans of intricate action fiction will be enthralled

Myriad twists... a high-octane dark comedy as the body count stacks up.

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