From the National Book Award — winning, bestselling author of

Tree of Smoke

comes a provocative thriller set in the American West.

Nobody Move

, which first appeared in the pages of Playboy, is the story of an assortment of lowlifes in Bakersfield, California, and their cat-and-mouse game over $2.3 million. Touched by echoes of Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett,

Nobody Move

is at once an homage to and a variation on literary form. It salutes one of our most enduring and popular genres — the American crime novel — but with a grisly humor and outrageousness that are Denis Johnson’s own. Sexy, suspenseful, and above all entertaining,

Nobody Move

shows one of our greatest novelists at his versatile best.