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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.”
After You with the Pistol (Charlie Mortdecai Series #3)
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9781468307863
- Publisher: The Overlook Press
- Publication date: 02/01/2005
- Series: Charlie Mortdecai Series , #3
- Sold by: Barnes & Noble
- Format: eBook
- Pages: 198
- Sales rank: 227,770
- File size: 410 KB
- Age Range: 18 Years
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After You with the Pistol—the second Charlie Mortdecai novel by Kyril Bonfiglioli, soon to be a major film starring Johnny Depp
“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.Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought
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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
Library Journal
This second in Overlook's reprints of Bonfiglioli's British humor/mystery series finds the lecherous Charlie Mortdecai dragged into a plot to kill the queen. Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.