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A luxury hotel full of assassins - what could go wrong?

Nanao ‘the unluckiest assassin in the world’ has been hired to deliver a birthday present to a guest at a luxury Tokyo Hotel. It seems like a simple assignment but by the time he leaves the guest''s room one man is dead and more will soon follow. Events spiral out of control as it becomes clear several different killers, with varying missions, are all taking a stay in the hotel at the same time. And they''re all particularly interested in a young woman with a photographic memory, hiding out on one of the twenty floors.

Will Nanao find the truth about what’s going on? And will he check out alive?

In this original, gripping and inventive follow-up to the international bestseller Bullet Train, Kotaro Isaka demonstrates his unparalleled gift for unique characters and unexpected twists.

‘Unlike anything you''re likely to have read before...white-hot with double-crosses’ Financial Times, on BULLET TRAIN

‘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

‘An offbeat but touching thriller, with a wonderful final twist’ Mail on Sunday, on THE MANTIS

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