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The Gun Seller
  • Published: 15 October 2004
  • ISBN: 9780099469391
  • Imprint: Arrow
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $24.99

The Gun Seller

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15 Oct 2004
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8 Feb 2011
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From the brilliantly funny Hugh Laurie, British comedian and star of TV medical drama House, comes a debut novel that will have his existing fans - and anyone who loves the dark humour of Stephen Fry and Ben Elton's books - laughing out loud.

When Thomas Lang, a hired gunman with a soft heart, is contracted to assassinate an American industrialist, he opts instead to warn the intended victim - a good deed that doesn't go unpunished.

Within hours Lang is butting 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, whilst trying to save a beautiful lady ... and prevent an international bloodbath to boot.

A wonderfully funny novel from one of Britain's most famous comedians and star of award-winning US TV medical drama series, House.
  • Published: 15 October 2004
  • ISBN: 9780099469391
  • Imprint: Arrow
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $24.99
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About the author

Hugh Laurie

Hugh Laurie was born in 1959. At Cambridge University he took part in a number of undergraduate revues, the last of which won the Perrier Award at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 1981. Since university he has made his living as a writer, actor, director and musician, appearing in, amongst others, Blackadder, A Bit of Fry & Laurie and, also with Stephen Fry, Jeeves and Wooster. He lives in London with his wife and three children, and is utterly devoted to motorcycling.
HL

Praise for The Gun Seller

The funniest and most charming novel I have read in years and years. If you see someone howling with laughter on the subway, sobbing with joy in the street or exploding with delight on an airplane this year, it’s because they’re reading The Gun Seller

Stephen Fry

Clever and hilarious, with a story that is intricate, tense and well researched—and unstintingly joyous read.

Time Out

A terrific debut

Daily Telegraph

A comic thriller, a sort of Jeeves James Bond

Observer Review

Entertaining, light-hearted, with a constant sense of irony

Mail on Sunday

A ripping spoof of the spy genre

Vanity Fair

Fast, topical, wry, suspenseful

Washington Post

Genuinely witty and sophisticated

New York Times

A tasty treat for fans of both comedic novels and suspense thrillers

USA Today

Has all the trademarks of an offbeat James Bond adventure

Entertainment Weekly

A very funny book . . . makes many another comic novel look slow-witted in comparison

Sunday Telegraph

Clever and hilarious, with a story that is intricate, tense and well researched - and unstintingly joyous read

Time Out

A ripping spoof of the spy genre

Vanity Fair

A very funny book ... makes many another comic novel look slow-witted in comparison

Sunday Telegraph

A terrific debut

Daily Telegraph