The Mantis

Kotaro Isaka, Sam Malissa

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English

Harvill Secker
09 December 2023

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Crime & Mystery; Thriller & suspense; Fiction in translation

Good dad or good assassin? Can he be both?- From the internationally bestselling author of BULLET TRAIN.

Good dad or good assassin? Can he be both?

From the internationally bestselling author of BULLET TRAIN- A seemingly ordinary family man tries to juggle his home life with his job as a hitman.

Picture a mantis raising up its blades. It looks fearsome, but it's still just a tiny insect. The mantis actually thinks it can win. Even though it's tiny, it's still ready to fight to the death.

Kabuto is an ordinary guy; stressed with work, hassled by his wife and disrespected by his son. No wonder he visits his doctor so often. Except 'the Doctor' is actually his handler, and Kabuto is a hired assassin. The 'prescriptions' the Doctor hands over are his unlucky targets. Because although Kabuto may seem like a small man at home, he's really good at killing people.

Kabuto is worn out with the business of murder. He's trying to pay his way out of the Doctor's employment with a few last jobs. But the most lucrative contracts involve taking out other professional assassins and his final assignment puts both him and his family in danger.

'Unlike anything you're likely to have read before...white-hot with double-crosses' Financial Times, on Bullet Train

By: Kotaro Isaka
Translated by: Sam Malissa
Imprint: Harvill Secker
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 240mm, Width: 162mm, Spine: 26mm
Weight: 461g
ISBN: 9781787303928
ISBN 10: 1787303926
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 09 December 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Kotaro Isaka (Author) 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 (Translator) 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.

Reviews for The Mantis

Entertaining...high-speed...with lots of twists and turns...it has a Tarantino-meets-the-Coen-Brothers feel to it. * The Times, on Bullet Train * Thoroughly enjoyable * Guardian, on Bullet Train * Showcases Kotaro Isaka's Tarantinoesque blend of offbeat wit and stylised violence * The Times, on Three Assassins * Highly entertaining... grips with plenty of twists before delivering a stylish and fitting finale * Sunday Express, on Three Assassins *