Nobody Move: A Novel

Jimmy Luntz is an innocent man more or less. Hes just leaving a barbershop chorus contest in Bakersfield California thinking about placing a few bets at the track when he gets picked up by a thug named Gambol and his life takes a calamitous turn. Turns out Jimmy owes Gambols boss significant money and Gambols been known to do serious harm to his charges. Soon enough a gun comes out and Jimmys on the run. While in hiding he meets up with a vengeful often-drunk bombshell named Anita and the two of them go on the lam together attracting every kind of trouble.. From the National Book Award-winning author Denis Johnson comes Nobody Move: does exactly what noir should do--propel the reader downhill with its cast of losers louts and toughs as they cheat shoot and exploit one another into fast-talking oblivion (Jess Walker The Boston Globe).