Dr. No is the spy thriller as you've never read it before, reinvented by Percival Everett, the twice Booker Prize-shortlisted author of The Trees and James.
Wala Kitu is a professor of mathematics at Brown University, specializing in nothing. Kitu is content with nothing studying it, having it, doing it until his research places him in the sights of billionaire and would-be Bond villain John Sill, who enlists the professors help to steal a deposit of nothing from Fort Knox and use it to reduce the United States of America to nothing.
Sill wants vengeance for another act of all-American villainy: the murder of his father, a witness to the state-sanctioned assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. His mission is everything: This country has never given anything to us and it never will.'
'Clever, funny and mercilessly satirical.' The Times
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Theres nobody else quite like him, with his mash of ideas, chaos, satire and frivolity. * The Financial Times * A great deal of fun, and Everett gets a lot of comic mileage out of his narrators affectless reactions to the increasingly absurd situations he finds himself in . . . Everett is always up to something interesting. * The Guardian * Clever, funny and mercilessly satirical. * The Times *
Percival Everett is the author of over thirty published works, including Zulus, Erasure, I Am Not Sidney Poitier, Assumption, Percival Everett by Virgil Russell, Telephone, The Trees, Dr. No and James. A Guggenheim Fellow and Pulitzer Prize Finalist, Everett has won the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award, the Academy Award in Literature, the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction, and the Windham-Campbell Literature Prize for Fiction.
The Trees and James were both shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Erasure was adapted into the Oscar-nominated movie, American Fiction.
Everett lives in Los Angeles, CA, where he is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Southern California.
