Three Assassins: A propulsive new thriller from the bestselling author of BULLET TRAIN

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I’ve seen photos of penguins living in groups all bunched together,’ Suzuki had responded, gently needling. ‘Are penguins like insects too?’ His professor flushed. ‘Penguins have nothing to do with it.’ He sounded endearingly childlike, and Suzuki had felt that he wanted to be the same way as he got older. He still remembers it. The third incident took place at the festival of the Lupercalia, on 15 February 44 BC. Mark Antony, who had been elected co-consul with Caesar, climbed onto the Rostra and placed a diadem on Caesar's head, saying "The People give this to you through me." While a few members of the crowd applauded, most responded with silence. Caesar removed the diadem from his head; Antony again placed it on him, only to get the same response from the crowd. [11] Finally, Caesar put it aside to use as a sacrifice to Jupiter Optimus Maximus. [7] "Jupiter alone of the Romans is king", Caesar said, which received an enthusiastic response from the crowd. [11] At the time, many believed that Caesar's rejection of the diadem was a way for him to see if there was enough support for him to become king, and despised him for it. [12] When the novel opens he's been working for the organization for a month, proving himself by doing his small part in their seedy dealings, but now he's being tested. It's a bit messy and quite a bit of it is preposterous, but there's an elegance to the elaborate plot and the ripple-effect of consequences of the various (often deadly) actions.

Three Assassins by Kotaro Isaka - Criminal Element Book Review: Three Assassins by Kotaro Isaka - Criminal Element

manganohi.jp (in Japanese). June 6, 2007. Archived from the original on December 16, 2007 . Retrieved July 14, 2021. 【週刊少年サンデー】週刊少年サンデー２７号 発売中 Brutus disagreed with both. He argued that killing Caesar, and doing nothing else, was the option they should choose. The conspirators claimed to be acting based on the principles of law and justice, he told them, and it would be unjust to kill Antony. While the assassination of Caesar would be viewed as the killing of a tyrant, killing his supporters would be seen only as a politicized purge and the work of Pompey's former supporters. By keeping Caesar's reforms intact, they would both keep the support of the Roman people, who Brutus believed opposed Caesar the king, not Caesar the reformer, and the support of Caesar's soldiers and other supporters. His argument convinced the other conspirators. They began making plans for Caesar's assassination. [32] His victim here is the secretary of a politician, Kaji, -- the thirty-third person he's killed for hire. Just as they are set to meet the younger Terahara he is apparently pushed into traffic, hit and killed by a minivan. Suzuki gets to meet all three during his time in the criminal underworld where the man responsible for the death of his wife is hiding in plan sight as he is the son of the local mafia.

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In short this was a wonderful second novel by Isaka and one I fully enjoyed – It was definitely on par with Bullet Train and while the story has a wider playing ground than a train and less main characters it did not take any of the tension or suspense away. I am honestly extremely excited for more works by Isaka and hope that they continue to be translated for easier access to western audiences. Suzuki called Hiyoko, took the couple to a cafe, and started introducing products as he normally would. Whether it was because they were young and stupid or just gullible, the young man and woman seemed almost comically willing to go along with what Suzuki and Hiyoko were pitching. Their eyes lit up at the barest of compliments, and they nodded enthusiastically at all the bogus data from the pamphlets. Suzuki seems to have the best lead, but he's managed to get himself out of the organization's direct clutches, and while Hiyoko keeps badgering and threatening him by phone he tells her he wants to ascertain that the man he followed really is the Pusher.

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I devoured this book over one weekend and ended up re-reading it along with Bullet Train before writing this review. I am honestly upset it’s over and will likely re-read after my current ARC’s. The characters, as with Isaka’s Bullet Train, are interesting and I love seeing each one's personality and quirks come through in the text. I don’t wish to spoil the story too much but it was interesting to see particularly the characters of the Cicada and Whale work through their own internal musings and struggles while easily taking lives or at least persuading others to take their own. This is juxtaposed to Suzuki who is seemingly hapless and going through the motions, using the ideal of revenge to justify some of his actions since joining the criminal gang. Now in his late twenties, Suzuki lost his wife two years earlier, when she was hit by a car, the driver never held to account for killing her. The idiotic son of the gang boss is killed on the street in front of him, being pushed under a moving car. Suzuki sees who did it and is sent to follow and find this person. He sees the house where this assassin is living with his family and gets mesmerised by his two adorable sons and lovely wife. He tries to save them from the gang's revenge. In 2002, Isaka's novel Lush Life gained much critical acclaim, but it was his Naoki Prize-nominated work Jūryoku Piero (2003) that brought him popular success. His following work Ahiru to Kamo no Koin Rokkā won the 25th Yoshikawa Eiji Prize for New Writers. If this sort of thing rattles you, you won’t get very far. Your trial period is almost over, so you better get used to jobs like this. Although I bet you never imagined you’d be kidnapping people, huh?’The bizarre interactions in this lethal community are every bit as surreal as in the earlier book, but the novelty of Bullet Train is absent." - Barry Forshaw, Financial Times Waltz: La fin et l'après". manga-news.com (in French). February 9, 2012 . Retrieved November 10, 2020. Publius Servilius Casca Longus, former Caesarian, [81] the one responsible for the first stab, to Caesar's shoulder Julius Caesar was assassinated by a group of senators on the Ides of March (15 March) of 44 BC during a meeting of the Senate at the Curia of Pompey of the Theatre of Pompey in Rome where the senators stabbed Caesar 23 times. They claimed to be acting over fears that Caesar's unprecedented concentration of power during his dictatorship was undermining the Roman Republic. At least 60 to 70 senators were party to the conspiracy, led by Marcus Junius Brutus, Gaius Cassius Longinus, and Decimus Junius Brutus Albinus. Despite the death of Caesar, the conspirators were unable to restore the institutions of the Republic. The ramifications of the assassination led to his martyrdom, the Liberators' civil war and ultimately to the Principate period of the Roman Empire. The Whale's ghosts and an occasional ponderousness as Suzuki mourns his wife weigh things down a bit, but basically Isaka keeps things moving at a very good clip, not least by throwing in quite a few clever twists.