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The Barnes & Noble Review"All the characters in this book are fictitious; any similarity to real people or corpses is both accidental and disgusting." So begins Kyril Bonfiglioli's cult classic After You with the Pistol. For the next 192 pages, the jokes -- tossed off in the most artfully arch and casual manner -- never let up, as Bonfiglioli's delightful antihero, Charlie Mortdecai, continues his unabashed and inebriated brand of reluctant heroism. The sequel to Don't Point That Thing at Me, which left the irascible art dealer and his thuggish "assistant," Jock Strapp, for dead, After You with the Pistol explains their lucky resurrection, thanks to a powerful covert international agency that offers to keep Mortdecai alive -- provided he appease his incredibly rich and nubile wife, Johanna. When the loving Johanna asks him to kill the queen of England. Mortdecai sets about his task with a heavy heart, and while his plot goes awry, our politically incorrect hero is forced on a mission of international intrigue that is stunning in its absurdity: It requires him to attend a vicious, feminist-run training camp for secret agents, combat an all-powerful union of Chinese waiters, pose as a priest, smuggle heroin from China to America, and a survive a fantastic shootout in a slaughterhouse. All the while, Bonfiglioli's marvelous creation never flags, mixing the best of Ian Fleming's 007 with P. G. Wodehouse's Bertie Wooster. Listening to Mortdecai natter on -- yes, the voice is so perfect you can almost hear it rise off the page -- about hangover cures, oysters and sex, the sanitized paper strips of hotel toilets, his crossword puzzle skills, and the vagaries of different handguns, all while he escapes certain death at every corner, is one of life's great pleasures. Seth Kaufman
Overview
Charlie's back in After You with a Pistol, along with his new bride, Joanna, and his thuggish manservant, Jock. He's also still drinking too much...