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ARCHIVED ONLINE EVENT - Japan Society Book Club: Bullet Train by Kotaro Isaka

Monday 8 November 2021 / 7:00pm
ONLINE EVENT - Japan Society Book Club: Bullet Train by Kotaro Isaka

Date
Monday 8 November 2021
Time
7.00pm (GMT)
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Booking Details
Online event
Free for Japan Society Members

Book available from Amazon and Book Depository 
Japanese version available here

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Five killers find themselves on a bullet train from Tokyo competing for a suitcase full of money. Who will make it to the last station? An original and propulsive thriller from a Japanese bestseller. Satoshi looks like an innocent teenage schoolboy, but he is really a viciously cunning psychopath. Kimura's young son is in a coma thanks to Satoshi, and he's tracked him onto the bullet train headed from Tokyo to Morioka to exact his revenge. But Kimura soon discovers that he and Satoshi are not the only dangerous passengers onboard. Nanao, the self-proclaimed 'unluckiest assassin in the world', and the deadly partnership of Tangerine and Lemon are also travelling to Morioka. A suitcase full of money leads others to show their hands. Why are they all on the same train, and who will get off alive at the last station?

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 twelve of his books have been adapted for film or TV.

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