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Bullet Train

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First published in Japan in 2010 by Kadokawa with the title Maria Bītoru.
"Soon to be a major motion picture starring Brad Pitt and Joey King" --cover.
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 the world"--boards a bullet train from Tokyo to Morioka with one simple task: grab a suitcase and get off at the next stop. Unbeknownst to him, the deadly duo Tangerine and Lemon are also after the very same suitcase--and they are not the only dangerous passengers onboard. Satoshi, "the Prince," with the looks of an innocent schoolboy and the mind of a viciously cunning psychopath, is also in the mix and has history with some of the others. Risk fuels him, as does a good philosophical debate...like, is killing really wrong? Chasing the Prince is another assassin with a score to settle for the time the Prince casually pushed a young boy off of a roof, leaving him comatose. When the five assassins discover they are all on the same train, they realize their missions are not as unrelated as they first appear. A massive bestseller in Japan, Bullet Train is an original and propulsive thriller that fizzes with an incredible energy and surprising humor as its complex net of double-crosses and twists unwind. Award-winning author Kotaro Isaka takes readers on a tension-packed journey as the bullet train hurtles toward its final destination. Who will make it off the train alive--and what awaits them at the last stop?

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PUBLISHED
New York : The Overlook Press, 2021.
Year Published: 2021
Description: 415 pages ; 24 cm
Language: English
Format: Book

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781419756337
1419756338

ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Malissa, Sam,

SUBJECTS
Teenage boys -- Fiction.
Psychopaths -- Fiction.
Assassins -- Japan -- Fiction.
Coma -- Family relationships -- Fiction.
High speed trains -- Japan -- Fiction.
Thrillers (Fiction)