A LUXURY HOTEL FULL OF KILLERS. FIND THE TRUTH. CHECK OUTALIVE.

Nanao, the unluckiest assassin in the world, has been hired to deliver abirthday present to a luxury Tokyo hotel. By the time he leaves the guest’sroom one man is dead and more will soon follow. As events spiral out of controlas it becomes clear that several different killers are taking a stay in thehotel at the same time. And they’re all looking for a young woman with aphotographic memory, hiding out on one of the twenty floors.

Will Nanao find the truth about whats going on? And will he check out alive?

PRAISE FOR KOTARO ISAKA:

Laden with dark humourNew York Times Book Review

About the Author

Kotaro Isaka is a bestselling and multi-award-winning writerwho is published around the world. He has won the Shincho Mystery Club Award,Mystery Writers of Japan Award, Japan Booksellers’ Award and the YamamotoShugoro Prize and fourteen of his books have been adapted for film or TV. He isthe author of the international bestsellerBullet Train,whichwas made into a major film starring Brad Pitt and Sandra Bullock.

Brian Bergstrom is a Montral-based lecturer and translator. His translationshave appeared in publications includingGranta,Aperture,LitHub,Mechademia,The Penguin Book of Japanese ShortStoriesandElemental: Earth Stories. His translationofTrinity, Trinity, Trinityby Erika Kobayashi won the 2022Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Prize for the Translation of JapaneseLiterature. His most recent translation isSlow Down: How DegrowthCommunism Can Save the Earthby Marxist philosopher Kohei Saito.