Berlin Express Summary Chapters 1-5

The story starts in a train to Germany; Hiro Adachi is the main character from Japan who is studying in England. Hiro broke up with Akiko and she doesn’t want to hear from him because he has a photo of Yuki a beautiful golden retriever in his phone. He got a ticket to travel anywhere.  In his journey he had to change the train in Köln to Berlin in the second train he saw a man (Erik Björnson) with silvery grey hair wearing a grey raincoat  go on who was pulling a small suitcase , the man reminded him of a shark, the man took the sit next to him, Hiro  was really nervous It was like being near a dangerous animal.  Suddenly, the train braked sharply, it was so hard that a woman fell across the table between Hiro and the Shark, she knocked the Shark’s newspaper and phone off the table and on to the seat beside Hiro.  Something happened with their phones but Hiro had the shark’s phone, Hiro heard the small ringing sound his phone made when a text message came through, it could be a text from Akiko but he didn’t understand the text. Hiro realized the phone wasn’t his. He started to read all the messages and he thought the shark could be a killer.  They change their phones again and they start to talk and introduce themselves, the conversation was really tense, they reached Berlin at 7:30pm, At the train station the shark made some recommendations to him because he didn’t know really well the way to Kreurberg., He thought that the shark wanted to push him off the platform in front of the train because nobody was looking. The old man’s face was close to Hiro’s and he was holding his arm very tightly. At last Hiro was alone; he found his hotel and thought it was only a terrible dream.