Famous British actor Hugh Laurie, inspired by the literary successes of his friend and colleague Stephen Fry, wrote a parody action thriller. An elegant style, subtle jokes, charming heroes, and observations that are far from banal were appreciated both by demanding readers and by critics. There’s nothing surprising in that— even P. G. Wodehouse himself could have been proud of a book like “The Gun Seller.”
Thomas Lang, in the past, was a regular military man and a professional fighter against terrorism. And now he is a drifter and adventurer who has nothing left to lose except his heart—and on whom anyone can rely except for 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 are not in fashion.
But precisely into this world, villainous fate throws the hero. Thomas would be selling windowpanes, lip balm, or vacuum cleaners. The work, of course, is dull, but understandable: you knock on a door and smile broadly. But everything is different if you need to “sell” a combat helicopter that can fly five hundred miles an hour and produce a thousand corpses a minute. And if you also want to survive, save your beloved girl, and earn the fee honestly, then the task becomes one hundred times harder…