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Wala Kitu, the narrator of Dr. No, is a mathematician obsessed with the concept of nothing. He is approached by billionaire John Sill, who pays him several million dollars to be his expert on nothing. Sill wants to be a Bond-style supervillain, and he plans to break into Fort Knox, which he is convinced contains nothing, and nothing can be used as a super weapon. Sound confusing? It does a bit when described this way, but it really isn't in the novel itself, where it works as the weapon and also as the basis for a lot of wordplay.

This is a marvelous send-up of spy novels of the James Bond type, complete with an insane villain, a variety of henchmen, various locales and secret bases, bizarre plots, and so on. But it's also more. In addition to the wordplay mentioned above, there are philosophical references and a lot of mathematical references, such as mentions of various real laws, theorems, and proofs. And one of the main characters is named Eigen Vector.

This is the second Everett novel I've read, having read his marvelous James a few months ago. I'll certainly read more.