From the internationally bestselling author of Bullet Train and
Three Assassins, a propulsive new 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. 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 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.
