Bullet Train
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Hurtling through Japan at over 200 miles per hour, the Hikari Super Express becomes a prison of steel and speed when a ruthless bomber plants explosives onboard and demands an impossible ransom — if the train slows, everyone dies. Bullet Train is a white-knuckle novel of suspense that thrusts an unlikely cast of passengers and crew into a desperate race against time, where every decision carries fatal consequences and nowhere on the speeding train is safe. The tension is relentless, the stakes are absolute, and the clock never stops. Originally published in Japanese as Shinkansen Daibakuha by Arei Kato and adapted for Western audiences with co-author Joseph Rance, the novel masterfully blends the precision of Japanese thriller writing with a propulsive, cinematic style that keeps the reader pinned to the page. The confined, high-velocity setting serves as a brilliant metaphor for the inescapability of fate, trapping its characters — and its readers — with no way off and no way out. What begins as an ordinary journey transforms into an extraordinary fight for survival that will leave you breathless long after the final page.
Author: Joseph Rance & Arei Kato
Format: Hardback
Genre: Thriller
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Hurtling through Japan at over 200 miles per hour, the Hikari Super Express becomes a prison of steel and speed when a ruthless bomber plants explosives onboard and demands an impossible ransom — if the train slows, everyone dies. Bullet Train is a white-knuckle novel of suspense that thrusts an unlikely cast of passengers and crew into a desperate race against time, where every decision carries fatal consequences and nowhere on the speeding train is safe. The tension is relentless, the stakes are absolute, and the clock never stops. Originally published in Japanese as Shinkansen Daibakuha by Arei Kato and adapted for Western audiences with co-author Joseph Rance, the novel masterfully blends the precision of Japanese thriller writing with a propulsive, cinematic style that keeps the reader pinned to the page. The confined, high-velocity setting serves as a brilliant metaphor for the inescapability of fate, trapping its characters — and its readers — with no way off and no way out. What begins as an ordinary journey transforms into an extraordinary fight for survival that will leave you breathless long after the final page.