Three assassins

First Title Value for Searching:

Three assassins

Personal Author:

Isaka, Kōtarō, 1971-

Physical Description:

253 pages ; 24 cm.

General Note:

First published in Japan by Kadokawa in 2004 as Gurasuhoppā.

Summary:

"Suzuki is an ordinary man until his wife is murdered. To get answers and his revenge, Suzuki abandons his law-abiding lifestyle and takes a low-level job with a front company operated by the crime gang Maiden, who are responsible for his wife's death. Before long, Suzuki finds himself caught up in a network of quirky and highly effective assassins: The Cicada is a knife expert. The Pusher nudges people into oncoming traffic. The Whale whispers bleak aphorisms to his victims until they take their own lives...Three Assassins delivers a wild ride through the criminal underworld of Tokyo, populated by contract killers who are almost superhumanly good at their jobs." --publisher's website.

Subject Term:

Teachers -- Fiction.

Wives -- Death -- Fiction.

Assassins -- Fiction.

Revenge -- Fiction

Murder for hire -- Fiction.

Organized crime -- Japan -- Tokyo -- Fiction.

Suspense fiction

Additional Credits:

Malissa, Sam

Isaka, Kōtarō, 1971- Gurasuhoppā. English.

Publication Info:

New York : The Overlook Press, 2022.

Uniform Title:

Gurasuhoppā. English

Subject:

Teachers -- Fiction.

Wives -- Death -- Fiction.

Assassins -- Fiction.

Revenge -- Fiction

Murder for hire -- Fiction.

Organized crime -- Japan -- Tokyo -- Fiction.

Suspense fiction

Tokyo (Japan) -- Fiction.

Faculty (Education)

Instructors

School teachers

Schoolteachers

Hatchet men (Assassins)

Hit men

Hitmen

Triggermen

Contract killing

Contract murder

Crime syndicates

Organised crime

Suspense tales

Tales, Suspense

Thrillers (Fiction)

東京 (Japan)

Tokyo (Japan).

Tokyo (Japan : Prefecture)

Tokyo Metropolitan Government (Japan)

Tonggyŏng (Japan)

동경 (Japan)

Tokio (Japan)

Токио (Japan)

Tʻokʻyoo (Japan)

Tung-ching tu (Japan)

Dongjing du (Japan)

Tung-ching tu tʻing (Japan)

Dongjing du ting (Japan)

Tōkyō-shi (Japan)

Tung-ching (Japan)

Dongjing (Japan)

东京 (Japan)

Tokyo Metropolis (Japan)

東京都 (Japan)

Tōkyō-to (Japan)

طوكيو (Japan)

Ṭūkiyū (Japan)

Горад Токіа (Japan)

Horad Tokia (Japan)

Токіа (Japan)

Tokia (Japan)

Toukio (Japan)

SAILS ISBN:

9781419763854

Available:

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Summary

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Pick

From Kotaro Isaka, the award-winning, internationally bestselling author of Bullet Train , the high-octane thriller Three Assassins , set in Tokyo's criminal underworld, pits an ordinary man against a group of talented and very unusual assassins.

Suzuki is an ordinary man . . . until his wife is murdered. To get answers and his revenge, he abandons his law-abiding lifestyle and takes a low-level job with a front company operated by the crime gang Maiden, who are responsible for his wife's death. Before long, Suzuki finds himself caught up in a network of quirky and highly effective assassins:

The Cicada is a knife expert.

The Pusher nudges people into oncoming traffic.

The Whale whispers bleak aphorisms to his victims until they take their own lives.

Intense and electrifying, Three Assassins delivers a wild ride through the criminal underworld of Tokyo, populated by contract killers who are almost superhumanly good at their jobs.

"Feels like a fever dream that makes sense when you're in it, but whose strange contours linger long after you wake up." -- New York Times

Reviews (1)

Publisher's Weekly Review

Former math teacher Suzuki, the protagonist of this engrossing thriller from Isaka (Bullet Train), has an opportunity for revenge two years after a drunk driver killed his wife. He's concealed his past to join Fräulein, a company that ostensibly sells beauty products for women. In fact, the firm is a criminal organization, and its CEO, Terahara, is the father of the man who killed Suzuki's wife. Suzuki hopes his position will enable him to confront the killer, but then his supervisor informs him that he's under suspicion and can only prove his loyalty to Fräulein by murdering two people. Things get only more complicated when someone pushes Terahara's son into traffic, where he's fatally run over. Suzuki's assigned to track down the culprit. Meanwhile, two other killers are at work: the Whale, who has coerced more than 30 people to kill themselves, and the Cicada, who slaughters a family after its youngest member burns a homeless person to death. Isaka makes what could be an over-the-top narrative work through his depiction of an everyman protagonist in way over his head. Fans of Bullet Train won't be disappointed. Agent: Yuma Terada, CTB. (Aug.)