The Gun Seller

12 hrs. 34 min.

Author Hugh Laurie

Narrator Kirill Radtsig

Description

Renowned British actor Hugh Laurie, inspired by the literary successes of his friend and fellow actor Stephen Fry, has written a parody action thriller. Elegant prose, subtle jokes, charming heroes, and observations that are far from banal impressed both demanding readers and critics. No surprise—such a book as “The Gun Seller” would have made P. G. Wodehouse himself proud.

Thomas Lang—once a career soldier and a professional anti-terror fighter. And now he’s a drifter and an adventurer with nothing to lose except his heart, and on whom anyone can rely except himself. Thomas’s trouble is that he doesn’t like killing people; his other trouble is honesty. In a world of hired killers and arms dealers, honesty and humanity aren’t in fashion. But it is precisely into this world that the villainous hand of fate drops the hero. Thomas ought to be selling window units, lip balm, or vacuum cleaners. Work, of course, is dull—but at least understandable: you ring the doorbell and smile as wide as you can. Everything changes if you need to sell a combat helicopter that can fly five hundred miles an hour and produce a thousand corpses per minute. And if you want to survive, save your beloved girl, and honestly earn your fee—then the task becomes a hundred times harder…