Bullet Train: NOW A MAJOR FILM

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* NOW A MAJOR NEW FILM *

FIVE KILLERS. ONE JOURNEY. BUT WHO WILL SURVIVE?

Discover the original and propulsive thriller from the massive Japanese bestselling author.

Satoshi looks like an innocent schoolboy but he is really a viciously cunning psychopath. Kimura's young son is in a coma thanks to him, and Kimura has tracked him onto the bullet train heading from Tokyo to Morioka to exact his revenge. But Kimura soon discovers that they 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?

(Bullet Train was originally published in Japan with the title Maria Beetle.)

'A locked-room crime drama played out at 200mph' The Times

'A high-octane thriller... Thoroughly enjoyable' Guardian

Don’t miss the next thrilling Kotaro Isaka book, HOTEL LUCKY SEVEN, available to pre-order now.

Readers are OBSESSED with Bullet Train:

'Original, quirky and highly entertaining'

'A dark-humoured, twisty thriller that's a lot of fun'

'One of the most addictive thrillers I've ever read... smart and cinematic'

'What an original novel! Exciting from beginning to end'

'A whole lot of darkly comic fun'

'A thrilling ride'

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4.5
27 reviews
Vivien NGOMA
May 6, 2021
J'attend le livre en Français et le film avec impatience!! Le film sera réalisé par David Leitch le réalisateur de John Wick et Hobbs & Shaw du lourd en perspective.👍🏾😊
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Syed Husayn
April 29, 2021
It is very thrilling to read. It gets more complicated when the 4th killer starts to call the 3rd killer. And then everyone died🔥😱
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Neil Wilson
January 20, 2023
Brilliant, a bit different from the film. I would say the book is better but the film is funnier
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About the author

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.

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