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

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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. The narrative in Three Assassins moves back and forth, chapter by chapter, between three characters, former middle school math teacher Suzuki and two very different sorts of contract killers known only as 'The Whale' and Cicada. tiên, mình nghĩ nên đọc cuốn này trước Bullet Train, cả hai cùng một thế giới sát thủ, và sự kiện của cuốn sách này xảy ra trước sự kiện chuyến tàu Shinkansen. Like Bullet Train, Three Assassins is a standalone novel that requires no familiarity with any of Isaka’s previous novels to appreciate the clever story or intense action. Three Assassins, by Kotaro Isaka, is one of the most unusual, imaginative, wacky, and endearing novels featuring assassins I have read.

Assassination of Julius Caesar - Wikipedia Assassination of Julius Caesar - Wikipedia

Eva’s white father, a rich businessman, is easily found – although he may not be all that he seems and she, still emotionally raw, is gullible – but her mother proves more elusive.There are three assassins (well there are many more but three main ones) and one outsider who finds himself in the world of assassins, so be ready for plenty of violence, including suicide. According to Nicolaus of Damascus, the conspirators included Caesar's soldiers, officers, and civilian associates, and while some joined the conspiracy due to concerns over Caesar's authoritarianism, many had self-interested motives such as jealousy: feeling that Caesar had not rewarded them enough or that he had given too much money towards Pompey's former supporters. It switches among points of view, so we sometimes have to read about the same situation from several characters.

Three Assassins: A Novel - Kindle edition by Isaka, Kotaro Three Assassins: A Novel - Kindle edition by Isaka, Kotaro

As the two men play their cat and mouse game, the other killers come to existential epiphanies of their own. This is a pretty unique and cool character trait which Isaka does a wonderful job portraying throughout Three Assassins. 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.He also has some unspoken mental illness, as he sees the ghosts of those he has murdered trying to manipulate his actions as he did theirs. Suzuki must take each of them on, to try to find justice and keep his innocence in a world of killers. this derives from William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar (1599), where it actually forms the first half of a macaronic line: " Et tu, Brute? Antony did not initially consider Octavius a true political threat due to his young age and inexperience, but Octavius quickly gained the support and admiration of Caesar's friends and supporters. After that, another group would take over, far more persistent, starting their illegal solicitation.