Dr. No

*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 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.’

Prize history

• National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction

  2022 · awarded 2023

  Finalist

Year-end lists

• The New Yorker, best books of 2022 No. 49