Kōtarō Isaka
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English
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Lady Bird, an unlucky assassin, is tasked with grabbing a suitcase from a bullet train from Tokyo to Morioka and exiting at the next stop, but doesn't realize other dangerous passengers are trying to do the same
A dark, satirical thriller by the bestselling Japanese author, following the perilous train ride of five highly motivated assassins--soon to be a major film from Sony. Nanao, nicknamed Lady Bird--the self-proclaimed "unluckiest assassin in...
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Abrams
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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"Kabuto is a highly skilled assassin eager to escape his dangerous profession and the hold his handler, the sinister Doctor, has over him. The Doctor, a real physician who hands over Kabuto's targets as "prescriptions" in his regular appointments with him, doesn't want to lose Kabuto as a profitable asset, but he agrees to let him pay his way out of his employment with a few last jobs. But the most lucrative jobs involve taking out other professional...
4) Tren bala
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Ediciones Destino
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Español
Description
"Nanao, conocido como el asesino ̀ms desafortunado del gremio, sube a un tren bala de Tokio a Morioka con una sencilla tarea: robar una maleta y bajarse en la siguiente estac̤in. Sin quě l lo sepa, el mor̕tfero {250}do de sicarios conocidos como Mandarina y Li̤mn tambǐn busca la misma maleta, y ellos no son los{250} nicos pasajeros peligrosos a bordo. Satoshi, el P̕rncipe, un joven de apenas catorce ąos pero con la mente de un psi̤cpata...
5) Bullet train
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Ladybug is an unlucky assassin determined to do his job peacefully after one too many gigs gone off the rails. Fate, however, may have other plans, as Ladybug's latest mission puts him on a collision course with lethal adversaries from around the globe, all with connected, yet conflicting, objectives, on the world's fastest train
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English
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By the internationally bestselling author of Bullet Train, the high-octane new thriller, set in Tokyo's criminal underworld, pits an ordinary man against a group of talented and very unusual assassins
Three Assassins is the high-stakes, high-style, and utterly propulsive follow-up to Kotaro Isaka's international bestseller, Bullet Train, a Crime Reads.
Suzuki is an ordinary man until his wife is murdered. To get answers and his revenge, Suzuki abandons...
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English
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From the award-winning, internationally bestselling author of Bullet Train and Three Assassins, The Mantis is a propulsive thriller set in Tokyo's criminal underworld about the intrigue and tensions a family man faces as he tries to hide his secret life as a hitman.
Kabuto is a highly skilled assassin eager to escape his dangerous profession and the hold his handler, the sinister Doctor, has over him. The Doctor, a real physician who hands over...
Author
Publisher
ABRAMS
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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A dark, satirical thriller by the bestselling Japanese author, following the perilous train ride of five highly motivated assassinsâsoon to be a major film from Sony starring Brad Pitt, Joey King, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Brian Tyree Henry, Andrew Koji, Hiroyuki Sanada, Michael Shannon, and Benito A MartÃnez Ocasio, and more
SatoshiâThe Princeâlooks like an innocent schoolboy but is really a stylish and devious assassin....
SatoshiâThe Princeâlooks like an innocent schoolboy but is really a stylish and devious assassin....
Publisher
Carroll & Graf
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
"Hutchings assembles another winning anthology...with this collection of 26 mystery stories in translation, representing 15 countries and 11 languages and chosen from a...monthly series in Ellery Queen mystery magazine. The selection includes most of the subgenres--noirs, whodunits, procedurals and thrillers--and though few of the authors will be familiar to mainstream readers, the writing is uniformly excellent"--Publishers Weekly