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. Brian Bergstrom (Translator) Brian Bergstrom is a Montreal-based lecturer and translator. His translations have appeared in publications including Granta, Aperture, Lit Hub, Mechademia, The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories and Elemental- Earth Stories. His translation of Trinity, Trinity, Trinity by Erika Kobayashi won the 2022 Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature. His most recent translation is Slow Down- How Degrowth Communism Can Save the Earth by Marxist philosopher Kohei Saito.
Isaka takes readers on a furious cat-and-mouse race through the luxury hotel… a near-perfect thriller. * Booklist * 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 *