Tag: thriller

Double or Nothing by Kim Sherwood

Kim Sherwood joins the esteemed company of writers such as Anthony Horowitz and William Boyd in penning a novel based around MI6’s hard-drinking, womanising assassin.

Double or Nothing is a bit different though — James Bond isn’t actually in it.

Double or Nothing cover
Double or Nothing

OO7 is missing in action, presumed dead, which leaves the rest of the OO section to pick up the slack when a billionaire megalomaniac, in possession of a quantum supercomputer, threatens the world’s ecological stability (such as it is).

So who are the new crew?

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Dr. No by Percival Everett

Possibly the strangest book I’ve ever read …

I’m really at a loss how to describe this.

It’s a thriller, but also a comedy (so, a comedy-thriller then), but it sort of has a poetic majesty about it (right, it’s a comedy-thriller with overtones of literary fiction).

So the easiest thing is to just tell you a bit about it.

Meet Wala Kitu, a mathematics professor at Brown University and the owner of a one-legged dog called Trigo, Kitu’s particular field of research is Nothing. Yup, the Professor has devoted his academic career to Nothing, that is Nothing as a concept, which as we discover, is completely different to the number zero, or a vacuum (which is something).

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