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The Mantis
- Author
- Kotaro Isaka
- Narrator
- Brian Nishii, Pun Bandhu
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date
- 7 November 2023
- Run Time
- 8 hours 8 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
From the bestselling author of Bullet Train and Three Assassins, a propulsive Thriller about a family man with a deadly secret life
Kabuto is a highly skilled assassin eager to escape his dangerous profession and the hold his handler, the sinister Doctor, has over him. The Doctor, a real physician who hands over Kabuto’s targets as “prescriptions” in his regular appointments with him, doesn’t want to lose Kabuto as a profitable asset, but he agrees to let him pay his way out of his employment with a few last jobs. Only the most lucrative jobs involve taking out other professional assassins, and Kabuto’s final assignment puts him and his family—who have no idea about his double life—in danger.
The third book in a loose trilogy set in Kotaro Isaka’s imagined Tokyo criminal underworld, The Mantis features all the hallmarks of his work that listeners have come to crave—assassins with quirky codenames and modi operandi, action sequences, madcap energy, and razor-sharp humor—making the novel a frenetic audio experience that hurtles listeners toward a thrilling climax.
Critics Review
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“Three Assassins 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 on Three Assassins
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Details
- Author
- Kotaro Isaka
- Narrator
- Brian Nishii, Pun Bandhu
- Duration
- 8 hours 8 minutes
- Release Date
- 7 November 2023
- ISBN
- 9798212663540
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Genre
- Thriller / suspense fiction, Thriller / suspense fiction, Thriller / suspense fiction, Crime and mystery fiction, Crime and mystery fiction
Synopsis
From the bestselling author of Bullet Train and Three Assassins, a propulsive Thriller about a family man with a deadly secret lifeKabuto is a highly skilled assassin eager to escape his dangerous profession and the hold his handler, the sinister Doctor, has over him. The Doctor, a real physician who hands over Kabuto’s targets as “prescriptions” in his regular appointments with him, doesn’t want to lose Kabuto as a profitable asset, but he agrees to let him pay his way out of his employment with a few last jobs. Only the most lucrative jobs involve taking out other professional assassins, and Kabuto’s final assignment puts him and his family—who have no idea about his double life—in danger.The third book in a loose trilogy set in Kotaro Isaka’s imagined Tokyo criminal underworld, The Mantis features all the hallmarks of his work that listeners have come to crave—assassins with quirky codenames and modi operandi, action sequences, madcap energy, and razor-sharp humor—making the novel a frenetic audio experience that hurtles listeners toward a thrilling climax.
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