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: #324 in Books
• Published on: 2007-06-01
• 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

An enjoyable read
I really enjoyed this book. It's funny, exciting, gory and different. I read it on holiday and have just started the sequel, The Eye of the Moon. It made me laugh out loud and I found I couldn't put it down, I wanted to keep going and find out what happened next. Give it a try, I think you'll like it!!

Reads like a first draft
I bought this based on Amazon reviews and because I liked the story behind its publication. I found it far too guesomely violent for my taste - which isn't my major gripe, maybe I'm not the target audience - but what I was REALLY shocked by was how bad the writing is. The author is clearly inventive, but desperately needs a good editor. I never got into the book because the language was so clunky I kept tripping over it. I ploughed through to the end because I really wanted the book to be great but it just wasn't.

I hope the author gets more editorial help on future releases because I'm sure he can do better than this.

The Book With No Name
Having read such rapturous reviews on this page, about this book, I thought it high time I gave it a shot, and purchased this "Blockbuster".
Never in my life have I ever read a bigger load of NONSENCE, and I LOVED every page of it! This is not really my kinda novel, considering some if it's characters, like Elvis', murdering Monks, people who can only live in the dark, and Lord knows how many others. I have never read of so many murders (in all their gory detail) since "Bram Stokers Dracula", (little bit of a clue there!).
There being so many characters I thought would be confusing, but whoever ANON is, they make it unbelievably easy to keep up with them all, and the pace of the, many story-lines. I just cant help but think I have read this (or something very, very similar) before. Stephen King could have written this book, but it is not long winded enough. Dean Koontz, perhaps. But nearing the end of the book, it hit me - Richard Laymon. The similarities are close to "Savage", and there are other books of his where the stories run parallel.
But many books criss-cross with others, and that should not diminish the value, and experience of reading "The Book With No Name". Buy it, read it, pass it round to everyone you know, because this is a novel that no one should miss out on.