Nobody Move

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 * The Times *
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 * The Guardian *
This is a staccato romp, as violent as Tarantino and a great deal funnier than Cormac McCarthy * The Irish Times *
Punchy and entertaining . . . Johnson is adept at cryptic cool; the prose is full of snappy lines and withering characterisations * The Daily Telegraph *
A lean, rough, dizzying amoral noir thriller about a couple of bad apples on the run from a couple of worse ones * Time *
Johnson is a fine novelist and a good poet. In this thriller he’s really enjoying himself, and it shows on every page * Daily Mail *
A blackly comic crime tale, with a wicked sense of fun * The Washington Post *
A neo-noir Western that summons Dashiell Hammett and Cormac McCarthy. Terrific stuff * GQ *
Johnson’s sex-fuelled noir novel packs white heat * Vanity Fair *
A playful, noirish, high-wire crime caper set in California, with style always at the service of narrative and Johnson’s unequivocal authorial vision ensuring ambiguity is in as short supply as love, mercy and compassion * Metro *
Hugely enjoyable and fast-moving . . . A flinty piece of pop art meant to be instantly understood and enjoyed * The New York Times *
Nobody Move – the title may well be a stage direction for the reader as well as the assorted characters, most of whom are operating on the wrong side of the law. This is a staccato romp, as violent as Tarantino and a great deal funnier than Cormac McCarthy * The Irish Times *
A hard-boiled, modern shoot-’em-up in which nobody’s hands are clean but everyone gets great lines * USA Today *
Johnson brings his own idiosyncratic brilliance, an ear for off-beat dialogue as good as Elmore Leonard’s and a well-practised gift for poet dislocation to its tough, racy narrative. And beyond its ferocious action, noisy gun-play and relentless wisecracking is an understanding of a bleak, inhospitable world * Uncut *
Short, sharp and written in the snappy prose of which Elmore Leonard is the master and Denis Johnson the number one disciple * Books Quarterly *
The adventures come thick and fast, as do the wisecrack-ing baddies and sexy, dangerous, kooky women * City A.M. *
Denis Johnson’s novel features a couple of testicle-eating bad guys, a femme fatale with a stake in several million missing dollars, and a skinny-chested teetotal gambler who tumbles downstairs as readily as he falls into bad situations; all this involving guns, box cutters, shovels, women and other dangerous implements * Times Literary Supplement *