Bullet Train (Assassins #2)

by Kōtarō Isaka

‘I like Virginia Woolf and Mishima, but suicide doesn’t sit right with me.’ ‘Virginia who?’

‘I’m not careful, you’re just careless.

‘But Thomas says something smart.’ ‘And what’s that?’ ‘Records are made to be broken!’ ‘Not a very nice thing to say to someone whose personal record you’ve just broken. Thomas sounds like a real jerk.’

A man really can’t give what he hasn’t got. He may have wanted to save his son, but he didn’t have the money to do it. There was nothing he could do. I realised that I would have to save myself. So I escaped.’