The Book With No Name
The first volume in the Bourbon Kid horror/thriller series, The Book With No Name is a novel written by an anonymous writer. It was originally published in 2006 through Lulu.com, but has since been re-released through Michael O'Mara Books. The books center on a supernatural serial killer only known as the "Bourbon Kid". This volume was initially written with the intent to make it a Western novel, with the author choosing to move the series to present day partway through the book.
In 2015 Belga Films began working on development of a movie based on The Book With No Name.
Tropes used in The Book With No Name include:
- Action Girl - Jessica
- Anyone Can Die
- Artificial Limbs - Rodeo Rex
- Ass Pull - Infra-red sunglasses? From a fancy-dress shop? Really?
- Badass - Almost everyone.
- Berserk Button - Drinking Bourbon for Bourbon Kid
- Bunny Ears Lawyer - Elvis: A very skilled hitman who wears an Elvis Presley costume wherever he goes.
- City of Adventure - Santa Mondega
- Cliché Storm
- Convenient Coma - Jessica spends five years in one
- Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass - The monks, Jessica
- Conviction by Counterfactual Clue - You can not create a permanent local eclipse by stopping the rotation of the moon around the earth because the earth is spinning.
- Gorn
- Guns Akimbo - several examples
- Gory Discretion Shot - Subverted from time to time by explaining exactly what was omitted from the viewer a few pages ago.
- Lampshade Hanging
- MacGuffin - The eye of the moon, the book with no name
- Made of Iron - Jessica survives quite a lot of bullets
- Malaproper - Captain Rockwell always getting the names of people wrong is a Running Gag
- More Dakka - Bourbon Kid shoots someone with 100 bullets she survives
- Our Vampires Are Different
- So Bad It's Good
- Unexpected Genre Change - First it's a western, then a detective story, then a mystery thriller.