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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.

‘Clever, funny and mercilessly satirical.’ – The Times

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.

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.’

Part of the Picador Collection, a series celebrating fifty years of Picador books and showcasing the best of modern literature.

Publisher Review

There's 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 narrator's 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 *