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: #321 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

COOL
A fantastic, un-put-downable book.

I was a little sceptic at first to be honest- was it all just hype? But then I realised ... the title, and the fact that it's written by 'anonymous', is not, as has been stated my many, a marketing ploy- the book was originally self published on the internet, so this is clearly not the case. I think it's actually written by a certain children's author who wanted to be taken seriously writing something else.

The first chapter is a fantastic opener- very mysterious. At first I thought it as a little cheesy in places- The Bourbon Kid?! Really?! But as I carried on reading, I felt this was almost some kind of comic relief. The characters are fun and the chapters endings are always real cliff hangers. There is some great humour in there too in places.

The only reason I have not given this book five stars is that it can be dated- Up until a certain point in the book I had no idea what era it was supposed to be set in, and I feel this added to the overall mystery. However, with various references to films, this was taken away. :(

The best word I can use to describe this book is 'cool'. Have a read and you'll know what I mean. Right, I'm off to buy the sequel...!

like marmite !!!!
Just finished the book so I thought I'd take a peek at what others are saying about it..... well its like Marmite - you either love it or hate it !!! Yes it is a mixture of genres but I found that quite clever; I haven't read many (or even any to be honest) cowboy/horror/murder mysteries all in one book! Didn't bother me that a lot of films were name checked as well - and I don't think as other readers did that they were ripping those films off but more paying homage to them. I would have given it 5 stars except for the ending which seemed a bit rushed - but hey Anon has left it wide open for a sequel !!! would be interesting to see more books by him/her

Brilliant fun
What a scream this book is! A friend lent it to me and kept nagging me to read it. It took me a few weeks before I actually started to read because it didn't look like my sort of thing. But my friend was spot on, once I'd started I couldn't put it down.
There are numerous laugh out loud moments right through the book, but it's also peppered with some excessive violence and gory moments. However, even the violence is often played for laughs. The characters are all larger than life and there are plenty of them.
Plotwise, there are several storylines running concurrently, but the overall theme is that of a murder mystery. The ending ties all the threads together brilliantly and there were some great twists.
I loved this book and was sorry when it came to an end because (although it's no literary masterpiece) it was great fun, and the action was relentless right from the first page.
I'd recommend this to anyone looking for something fun and very different.