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ejl2623 's review for:
Three Assassins
by Kōtarō Isaka
Why I'm already so fond of this series of novels about assassins is hard to explain. There's something in the humor even as folks are being kidnapped, drugged, tricked into committing suicide, and the pusher, whose specialty is pushing people to their deaths. The bosses of the hired killers engage in big business enterprises that include hiring performers to fool their victims into thinking they are in a safe place. There is competition, complaints by the worker bees that their bosses don't do any work and just take it easy while they have to kill whole families. Isaka is brilliant. In this initial book of the series, he weaves together stories involving a couple of assassins who work for themselves but are well known, one that works for a guy who arranges the hits and who uses him a lot because he will kill children and women, and a shlep who is out for revenge agains the son of the owner of a conglomerate and now finds himself potentially being its next victim. This was well crafted and well narrated and I promise you these are cynical and funny.