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Funny exciting spoof of today’s terror/anti-terror geopolitics

March 6, 2015 by Valyruh 3 Comments

If you love spy stories and spoofs of spy stories, you’ll love this debut novel by that sharp-tongued dry-humored wit named Hugh Laurie, best known to Americans for his brilliant but irritating Dr. House television character. Laurie’s hero in The Gun Seller is Thomas Lang, a former Scots Guard turned man-for-hire whose first line in the book is “Imagine that you have to break someone’s arm.” He goes through all the ways such thuggery can be accomplished, and it is not until several paragraphs in […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: arms dealers, Hugh Laurie, humor, spy novel, terrorism

Valyruh's CBR7 Review No:17 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: arms dealers, Hugh Laurie, humor, spy novel, terrorism ·
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