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Dr. No

A Novel
Pages
280
Published
2022
Language
English

Synopsis

Wala Kitu, a Brown University mathematics professor specializing in nothing, finds his research drawing the attention of billionaire John Sill. Sill, a would-be Bond villain, enlists Kitu to help steal a deposit of nothing from Fort Knox, intending to use it to reduce the United States to nothing. Sill seeks vengeance for the murder of his father, a witness to the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., believing the country has given nothing to his community and never will.

About the author

P
Percival Everett

American novelist and Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Southern California. Author of more than thirty books, including James (2024), winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the 2024 National Book Award for Fiction; Erasure (2001), adapted into the 2023 film American Fiction; and The Trees (2021), a Booker Prize finalist.

Characters

Wala KituProtagonist
John SillAntagonist
James BondCameo
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.Cameo
All characters in Dr. No
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