FAMILIAR WORLD: The Mantis sits alongside Bullet Train and Three Assassins with the same high stakes and high style readers have come to expect from Isaka, and it includes cameos by fan-favorite assassins from the two previous books.
GROWING AUTHOR REACH: The boom in interest generated by the Bullet Train film and Overlook’s media tie-in, plus the newly released Three Assassins hardcover, have cemented Isaka as a standout talent in the genre, and fans will eagerly await his next book.
BIG OPPORTUNITY WITH INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR: Isaka is the author of numerous massive Japanese and international bestsellers, and we have an enormous opportunity to build upon our success with Bullet Train and Three Assassins to make him a bestselling author stateside.

From the award-winning, internationally bestselling author of Bullet Train and Three Assassins, The Mantis is a propulsive thriller set in Tokyo’s criminal underworld about the intrigue and tensions a family man faces as he tries to hide his secret life as a hitman.

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. But 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 readers have come to crave assassins with quirky codenames and modi operandi, page-turning action sequences, madcap energy, and razor-sharp humor making the novel a frenetic, unputdownable read that hurtles readers toward a thrilling climax.

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Origin: Imported
Author's Name: Kotaro Isaka
Publisher/Vendor: Abrams US
Book Format: Hardcover
Year Released: 2023
ISBN/ISSN: 9781419763854
Translator: English
Editor:
Number of Pages: 256
Tags: Kotaro Isaka, Fiction, Fiction & Literature, Thriller, Mystery & Suspense