Dr. No Av Percival Everett

<p><b><i>Dr. No</i> is the spy thriller as you''ve never read it before, reinvented by Percvial Everett, the twice Booker Prize-shortlisted author of <i>The Trees</i> and <i>James.</i> </b><br><br>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 professor’s help to steal a deposit of nothing from Fort Knox and use it to reduce the United States of America to nothing.<br><br>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 everythin ‘This country has never given anything to us and it never will.''<br><br><b>''Clever, funny and mercilessly satirical.'' – <i>The Times</i><br><br>Part of the Picador Collection, a series celebrating fifty years of Picador books and showcasing the best of modern literature.</b><br><br><b>Read Percival''s Booker Prize-shortlisted novel <i>James</i> in paperback now.</b></p>