Dr. No: A Novel - Percival Everett
Category: Novel
Narrator: Amir Abdullah
Tags: Novel, Crime, Thriller, Adults
A sly, madcap novel about supervillains and nothing, really, from an American novelist whose star keeps rising, The protagonist of Percival Everetts puckish new novel is a brilliant professor of mathematics who goes by Wala Kitu. (Wala, he explains, means nothing in Tagalog, and Kitu is Swahili for nothing.) He is an expert on nothing. That is to say, he is an expert, and his area of study is nothing, and he does nothing about it. This makes him the perfect partner for the aspiring villain John Sill, who wants to break into Fort Knox to steal, well, not gold bars but a shoebox containing nothing. Once he controls nothing hell proceed with a dastardly plan to turn a Massachusetts town into nothing. Or so he thinks., With the help of the brainy and brainwashed astrophysicist-turned-henchwoman Eigen Vector, our professor tries to foil the villain while remaining in his employ. In the process, Wala Kitu learns that Sills desire to become a literal Bond villain originated in some real all-A
