Dr. No

Everett brings his mordant wit, philosophic inclinations, and narrative mischief to the suspense genre…[He] is adroit at ramping up the tension while sustaining his narrator’s droll patter and injecting well-timed ontological discourses on…well…nothing. It may not sound like anything much, so to speak. But then, neither did all those episodes of Seinfeld that insisted they were about nothing. And this, too, is just as funny, if in a far different, more metaphysical manner. A good place to begin finding out why Everett has such a devoted cult.

Kirkus Reviews, (starred review)

Everett continues to be an endlessly inventive, genre-devouring creator of thoughtful, tender, provocative, and absolutely unpredictable literary wonders.

Booklist, (starred review)

‘[Dr. No] is Everett at his most playful.’

Cher Tan, ABC Arts

'The phenomenally talented and prolific Percival Everett conducts a highwire act in Dr. No, balancing opaque mathematical theory with disarmingly deadpan humor over a daunting crevasse of nothing...The result is an entertaining caper of philosophical proportions. It is an adventure that can be appreciated on any of the numerous levels that Everett is working on, from the unassuming bumbling of a humble mathematician to the provocative consequences of unmitigated power, nothing is quite as enjoyable as Dr. No.'

Dave Wheeler, Shelf Awareness

'It's hard...to imagine a novelist today with fresher eyes than Percival Everett.'

Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune