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The Gun Seller
Hugh Laurie

Washington Square Press, 1998 - 368 pages

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Good Book

Very readable and funny.

And if you are a Hugh Laurie fan then it is an essential!


Fantastic read!

I'm a huge fan of House and of British comedy, as in A Bit of Fry and Laurie is probably my next purchase, so when I heard Huge Laurie had a book, I had to read it. While I was reading it, Laurie's sense of humor and own special brand of intrigue kept me in the story. GREAT BOOK.









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Interesting!

Very interesting premise and I never had a clue about how a "happy ending" was going to be achieved. Although the numerous asides were very distracting, and a little more background on the lead characters would have helped create better empathy, The Gun Seller was a great read and I hope we see more novels from Laurie.


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Yay...House!

He could write the phone book and I would buy it. The story is a spy story...the real value is his word play.
Buy it for that!


The Gun Seller

Snappy writing, plot twists that keep you wondering who's the good guy and who's the bad, and a character that I think every guy wants to be.

And I'm not a guy.

I don't read spy novels in general, but I picked this one up because I'm a fan of Hugh Laurie. Read the first page in B&N. Then the second. Until I read the first chapter. It made it on my Christmas list because I giggled. Out loud. In the little Starbucks area of B&N.

I got the book and laughed more and found myself reading when I should be doing everything else.

Laurie spits out these deadpan one liners throughout. I think writers would appreciate his wit with things like "She turned towards me and narrowed her eyes...Narrowed them horizontally, not vertically." He loves to play with cliches.

And how can you not laugh at gems such as, "I lit a cigarette with Solomon's dashboard. I say the dashboard, because most of it came away with the cigarette lighter when I pulled, and it took a moment to put the whole thing back together."

Come on, now, you're laughing, right?

It's a shame Hugh Laurie's gotten so much into this acting thing because I wish he'd write more books.

Or make this book into a movie. It reads like a movie. The guy from Layer Cake would be my first choice in casting, but he's the new James Bond, so there goes that idea. Possible Jason Statham, but I think Clive Owen really would make this role.

If anyone's asking.

When it comes down to it, if you like spy novels, you'll like this book.

If you don't like spy novels, you'll like this book.


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Hugh Laurie concocts an uproarious cocktail of comic zingers and over-the-top action in this "ripping spoof of the spy genre" (Vanity Fair) -- the irresistible tale of a former Scots Guard-turned-hired gun, a freelance soldier of fortune who also happens to be one heck of a nice guy.

Cold-blooded murder just isn't Thomas Lang's cup of tea. Offered a bundle to assassinate an American industrialist, he opts to warn the intended victim instead -- a good deed that soon takes a bad turn. Quicker than he can down a shot of his favorite whiskey, Lang is bashing heads with a Buddha statue, matching wits with evil billionaires, and putting his life (among other things) in the hands of a bevy of femmes fatales. Up against rogue CIA agents, wannabe terrorists, and an arms dealer looking to make a high-tech killing, Lang's out to save the leggy lady he has come to love...and prevent an international bloodbath to boot.


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