Nobody Move - Softcover

Johnson, Denis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0330504029 ISBN 13: 9780330504027

Publisher: Picador, 2010

Synopsis

‘Think Reservoir Dogs or Cormac McCarthy’s No Country for Old Men. Think Raymond Chandler and James Ellroy’ LIONEL SHRIVER, Daily Telegraph

Jimmy Luntz owes money to a man called Juarez. Trouble is, Juarez isn't the most patient of men. And when he gets bored of waiting, he sends someone round to collect. Luntz doesn't actually plan to shoot the guy, but the way he sees it, it's shoot or be shot. Either way, though, Luntz is out of his league, and he knows it: nobody messes with Juarez – or, at least, nobody messes with Juarez and lives to tell the tale.

‘Johnson can’t help slathering the story’s pages in his usual idiosyncratic brilliance . . . Reaching the end, the exhilarated reader is blindsided by the hint of something huge’ Guardian

‘A fast-paced, violent, hugely entertaining crime caper, packed with terrific set pieces and crackling dialogue. The fun that Johnson obviously had writing it steams off every page’ Sunday Telegraph

‘Johnson’s writing looks extremely simple. Let me tell you it is not – this kind of spare, poetic, humorous storytelling is only for the big boys. This is brilliant’ The Times

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Review:

'A fast-paced, violent, hugely entertaining crime caper, packed with terrific set pieces and crackling dialogue.' -- Sunday Telegraph

'Beyond its ferocious action, noisy gun-play and relentless wisecracking, is an understanding of a bleak, inhospitable world.'
-- Uncut

'In the style of a wittier Cormac McCarthy... The adventures come thick and fast, as do the wisecracking baddies and sexy, dangerous, kooky women' -- City AM

'It's a fast-paced, violent, hugely entertaining crime caper, packed with terrific set pieces and crackling dialogue.'
-- Sunday Telegraph

'Johnson's jokes are wonderfully deadpan and copious' -- Times Literary Supplement

'Johnson's jokes are wonderfully deadpan and copious... And Johnson does write well, bringing us inside the mind of a character' -- Times Literary Supplement

'One of America's great undiscovered novelists... Fast and relentless, humorous and tragic.'
-- Catholic Herald

'sharp, and written in the snappy prose of which Elmore Leonard is the master and Johnson the number one disciple.' -- Waterstone's Books Quarterly

`One of America's great undiscovered novelists... Fast and relentless, humorous and tragic... Pure undiluted fun'
-- Catholic Herald

`Short, sharp, and written in the snappy prose of which Elmore Leonard is the master and Johnson the number one disciple' -- Waterstone's Book Quarterly

Review:

'sharp, and written in the snappy prose of which Elmore Leonard is the master and Johnson the number one disciple.'

About this edition

• Publisher: Picador
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0330504029
• ISBN 13: 9780330504027
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208