No is an experimental work of genre fiction nestled within a distinctly African American revenge tale. Like Everett’s previous novel, The Trees, Dr. “This country has never given anything to us and it never will,” the general exhorts Kitu, who is Black (we are made to suspect the general is as well). Their boss’s diabolical plan to disappear parts of the country may not be practical or even possible, but it is political. Yet Sill’s work, as the general has been explaining to Wala Kitu, the professor, is not just a game. No-the latest zany masterpiece from the novelist Percival Everett-there have been all we would expect from a spy novel: pointless submarine chases, private flights to secret compounds in the Mediterranean, and sexually available women, including one with a comically literal name. Another is a professor of mathematics who studies the nature of zero, or “nothing.” The latter is feeling a bit in over his head he is starting to think maybe he wants, well, nothing to do with any of this.īy this point in Dr. One is a general, the commanding officer at Fort Knox. John Sill, a Black billionaire with a maniacal desire to be a Bond villain, has gathered his appropriately eclectic cast of accomplices. Not exactly a boxed lunch, but this is not your typical work meeting.
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