Showing results for "Kotaro Isaka" in Crime Fiction

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.

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.

Suzuki is just an ordinary man until his wife is murdered. When he discovers the criminal gang responsible, he leaves behind his life as a maths teacher and joins them, looking for a chance to take his revenge. What he doesn't realise is that he's about to get drawn into a web of unusual professional assassins, each with their own agenda.

Nanao, nicknamed Ladybug - the self-proclaimed “unluckiest assassin in the world” - boards a bullet train from Tokyo to Morioka with one simple task: Grab a suitcase and get off at the next stop. Unbeknownst to him, the deadly duo Tangerine and Lemon are also after the very same suitcase - and they are not the only dangerous passengers onboard. Satoshi, “the Prince”, with the looks of an innocent schoolboy and the mind of a viciously cunning psychopath, is also in the mix and has history with some of the others.

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. As 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.

Nanao, conocido como "el asesino más desafortunado del gremio", sube a un tren bala de Tokio a Morioka con una sencilla tarea: robar una maleta y bajarse en la siguiente estación. Sin que él lo sepa, el mortífero dúo de sicarios conocidos como Mandarina y Limón también busca la misma maleta, y ellos no son los únicos pasajeros peligrosos a bordo. Satoshi, "el Príncipe", un joven de apenas catorce años pero con la mente de un psicópata despiadado, se encontrará con Kimura, con quien tiene una cuenta que saldar.

Kabuto is an ordinary guy; stressed with work, hassled by his wife and disrespected by his son. No wonder he visits his doctor so often. Except 'the Doctor' is actually his handler, and Kabuto is a hired assassin. The 'prescriptions' the Doctor hands over are his unlucky targets. Because although Kabuto may seem like a small man at home, he's really good at killing people.

In der Unterwelt von Tokio begegnen drei kaltblütige Auftragskiller ihrem Meister: einem von Rache getriebenen Mathematikprofessor. Drei Auftragskiller mit eigenen Methoden: Die Zikade tötet mit dem Messer. Der Pusher stößt Menschen vor Autos. Und der Wal treibt seine Opfer dazu, sich selbst das Leben zu nehmen. Die Drei gelten in Tokios Unterwelt als unerreichte Meister ihres Fachs. Das ändert sich schlagartig, als sie auf Suzuki treffen, einen einfachen Mann und ehemaligen Mathematikprofessor, der ein glückliches Leben führte, bis seine Frau ermordet wurde.