After You with the Pistol: The Second Charlie Mortdecai Novel (Charlie Mortdecai series Book 2)
After You with the Pistol: The Second Charlie Mortdecai Novel (Charlie Mortdecai series Book 2)
Kindle Edition
Price
$9.49
Publisher
Penguin
Publication Date
UK ed. edition (June 5, 2014
Description
About the Author Kyril Bonfiglioli (1928 – 1985) was an art dealer, accomplished fencer, a fair shot with most weapons, and a serial marrier of beautiful women. He claimed to be “abstemious in all things except drink, food, tobacco, and talking,” and “loved and respected by all who knew him slightly.” --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.
Features & Highlights
- After you with the Pistol
- - the second Charlie Mortdecai novel by Kyril Bonfiglioli, soon to be a major film starring Johnny Depp'Some of the nastiest, funniest and most enjoyable crime writing of the last fifty years'
- Guardian
- 'Mr Mortdecai, why do you suppose I and my superiors have preserved you from death at very very great trouble and expense?'
- Charlie Mortdecai - degenerate aristocrat and victim of his own larceny and licentiousness - has no idea. Until it is made clear to him that he must marry the beautiful, sex-crazed and very, very rich Johanna Krampf. The fly in the ointment is that Johanna thinks nothing of involving poor Charlie in her life-threatening schemes such as monarch-assassination, heroin smuggling and - worst of all - survival training at a college for feminist spies. Perhaps, it's all in a good cause - if only Charlie can live long enough to find out.'A rare mixture of wit and imaginative unpleasantness' Julian Barnes'Splendidly enjoyable. The jokes are excellent, but the most horrible things keep happening'
- Sunday Telegraph
- 'At least of Hammett-Chandler weight, and in many ways surpasses them'
- The Times Literary Supplement
- Kyril Bonfiglioli was born on the south coast of England in 1928 of an English mother and Italo-Slovene father. After studying at Oxford and five years in the army, he took up a career as an art dealer, like his eccentric creation Charlie Mortdecai. He lived in Oxford, Lancashire, Ireland and Jersey, where he died in 1985. He wrote the three Mortdecai novels, a fourth historical Mortdecai novel (about a distinguished ancestor), and left a fifth unpublished at his death.
