Product Description

For many centuries the shelves of a library in South America held a terrible secret. Sitting on these shelves was a book with no name, written by an anonymous author. Everyone who ever read it ended up dead, yet the book always found it's way back to the library. In 2005 a special government investigator uncovered the truth about the book and it's link to the murders. Now available in paperback, you can discover for yourself the reason why no one ever read the book and lived, until now.....

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #894 in Books
• Published on: 2007-06-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 384 pages

The Daily Sport, 2nd June 07
"This particular Anonymous has decided to take a fistful of drugs and gone
on a literary genre-bender... punchy and witty... reading this mad book
feels like riding one of those bikes with square wheels... a slightly
strange experience but a lot of fun"

Zoo Magazine, July 07
"Possibly drug-induced lunacy of a book" - 4 stars

Manchester Evening News, July 07
Make sure you keep the big light on.

Customer Reviews

Simply Outstanding
I read this book cover to cover in two days (only stopping because I had to go to work) and followed it up straight away with The Eye of The Moon. It's been a very long time since I've read something I enjoyed this much. The fact that it's peppered with vampires, werewolves, serial killers and all kinds of weird and wonderful characters only adds to its charm. I don't think I've ever read anything I could compare it with, although if pushed I would say there are faint echoes of Stephen King's gunslinger books (but with more humour). It reminds me in places of Dean Koontz's Odd Thomas series - but only if you crossed it with Quentin Tarantino's `From Dusk `Till Dawn' or `Kill Bill'. At times I even found myself thinking of a light-hearted comparison to Anne Rice's `Memnoch The Devil'. The simple fact is though, that this book is unlike anything else I've ever read. If you hate this book, it's simply because you don't get it. It's not trying to be a clever book - it is a clever book, not least because despite its subject content and dubious characters, it is very, very amusing. Elvis is alive - albeit as a notorious killer! I would face down the Bourbon Kid with a smile on my face if I could only find out who really wrote this! Would the anonymous author please reveal him(her)self or at the very least write another book!!!

rubbish
i bought this book based on the other reviews, and i cant help thinking the good reviews were written by friends of the author, it is truly a horrid overdramatic story with no proper direction, i found it boring beyond compare, do yourself a favour and dont buy it, its no wonder they had to try and sell it with such gimmicks as "everyone who reads it ends up dead", spend your money elsewhere, you will thank me for it!

book with no name
Well what a book !.the review on the back said "death to anyone who reads this"the hairs on the back of your neck prickled straight away but it was that invitation that made you want to read out of shear curiousity and it did'ent disapoint.I think you actually warm to the bourban kid and with dante and peto you kinda see them as the hero's.Like some of the other reviews I can see taranteno,rodregez but also a bit of clive barker thrown in,there's definatley some english twang in there so is the author from good ole england ?.After all it's the birth place of Hammer