Product Description

Detective Miles Jensen is called to the lawless town of Santa Mondega to investigate a spate of murders. This would all be quite ordinary in those rough streets, except that Jensen is the Chief Detective of Supernatural Investigations. The breakneck plot centres around a mysterious blue stone - 'The Eye of the Moon' - and the men (and women) who all want to get their hands on it: a mass murderer with a drink problem, a hit man who thinks he's Elvis, and a pair of monks among them. Add in the local crime baron, an amnesiac woman who's just emerged from a five-year coma, a gypsy fortune teller and a hapless hotel porter, and the plot thickens fast. Most importantly, how do all these people come to be linked to the strange book with no name? This is the anonymous, ancient book that no one seems to have survived reading. "The Book With No Name" is a fast-paced, cinematic page-turner shot through with black humour, which will hold you rapt from its intriguing opening to the dramatic climax. There's only one way to find out what happens when you read the book with no name...A book with no name - by an anonymous author. Everyone who has ever read it has been murdered. What can this mean?

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #5480 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

Ham and cheese please...
Firstly, let me say why I read this book. I have become so disillusioned with recent best sellers, especially the po-faced pretentious dross that ends up on the Richard & Judy list of shame. I generally prefer books with lots of short chapters that end on a cliff-hanger and this is a great example. Now what you need to understand is, this book begs, borrows, steals, rents, flaunts and scavenges from literally dozens of other films and books - often very clumsily. And so on to the plot. Vampires, cowboys, monks, sluts, tough guys, gringos, dodgy bars, blood and gore. Any questions? A novel which contains large amounts of the above is not going to win prizes for subtlety or character development but for pure entertainment value it is pretty good. Trashy? Yes. Tacky? Definitely. Engrossing? You bet. I really enjoyed reading this book, it was like a breath of fresh air, or rather, cigarette smoke (as an ex-smoker, I still crave that...). I know why some reviewers would give this no stars but as a holiday read it works. The plot actually only touches on the idea of the book with no name, the central theme in the novel is just unfiltered violence. Give it a try.

I read this, and survived! You should too...
Full marks for whoever thought up this Marketing ploy. Publish a book by an anonymous author and call it The Book with No Name, then tell people NOT to read it because the book brings death to anyone who reads it. Of course it's going to be a hugely successful novel, because people always want to do what they're told not to. An excellent piece of reverse psychology. Anyway, onto the review...

This was lent to me by a friend, with a heavy recommendation to read it. After reading the back of the book I was a little unsure, but decided to plough through it regardless. It's a difficult book to classify because it's rather a mish-mash of genres. It's got hitmen, crime bosses, vampires, religious men, cowardly bartenders and thieves abound. Where to start?? I advise at the beginning. Try to start the book without any conception of what it's going to be about, and just take it for what it is. But don't rush through because there are so many subplots and characters that it's quite easy to get lost.

Very briefly, the plot centres around a town called Santa Mondega, which the rest of the world appears to have forgotten. Or they're just ignoring it... the streets are violent and full of criminals. Oh, and it's reputed to be inhabited by the largest amount of vampires than anywhere else in the world, and there's a solar eclipse coming up. It's going to get bloody...

I don't want to say much more because it will give the game away. I'll finish by saying it's an incredibly clever book, very easy to read (providing you keep track of who's who!), and the subplots are woven together ingeniously. It wasn't at all what I was expecting but I'm glad I gave it the chance, and would definitely read another book by this author. Whoever he/she is!

I'd recommend this to anyone, whatever your preference. It's got such a multitude of genres that I think most people will enjoy it, and appreciate it for the masterpiece it is. Fantastic.

Hard to put down
The best part of my recent washout of a holiday was reading this book. A couple of friends of mine had raved about it, so I gave it a try and now I can understand why they were both so passionate about it. I was disappointed when it ended, and I did contemplate reading it again, such was the poor weather.

It's all about a precious stone that a load of evil folks are trying to get their filthy hands on. There is also the story of two cops on the trail of a killer called the Bourbon Kid. They think he is killing everyone who reads The Book With No Name.

All of the characters in this story are really well rounded. Each one seems to have something unique about them, whether it be a metal hand, a desire to be Elvis or simply a particularly dangerous drink problem.
This is an easy book to read and it's a shame it isn't longer because my holiday would have been a little more enjoyable if I hadn't finished this so quickly.

Almost every chapter seemed to end in a cliffhanger that made me feel the need to read just one more each time, and as most of the chapters are only 4 or 5 pages I usually did.
Don't expect anything too deep and meaningful or educational. This is violence, comedy and, well, a bit of everything else thrown in for good measure too!

Despite the early confusion caused by the many different genres this actually all tied up at the end in a very surprising and satisfying way.
All in all a very good holiday read, especially if the weather lets you down.