The Gun Seller
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elfbiterHugh Laurie – The Gun Seller
(Okay, to me Hugh Laurie is not Doctor House (althought he did very good job in that series IMO) but the part of the britcom world, with her former colleague Stephen Fry. I still wonder if they stopped cooperating due to Fry’s admitted cocaine habit.)
Thomas Lang, former soldier, is hired to kill someone, decides to warn the target instead – and finds out that now both CIA and police are interested about both of them. In the process of trying to deal with all this, he is blackmailed to back up a terror attack which would be used by arms dealer to market his weaponry. It takes some effort to foil all this.
I found it rather hard not to imagine Laurie himself as the protagonist. The lines of the protagonist sound like something out of his mouth. Not necessarily to the detriment of the story.
As far as writing style goes, Laurie has appeared to take pointers from his old colleague Fry. The story begins with long and slow description of what is essentially fast-moving action scene. This style does not continue through the book, though, which makes things lot more readable.
(Okay, to me Hugh Laurie is not Doctor House (althought he did very good job in that series IMO) but the part of the britcom world, with her former colleague Stephen Fry. I still wonder if they stopped cooperating due to Fry’s admitted cocaine habit.)
Thomas Lang, former soldier, is hired to kill someone, decides to warn the target instead – and finds out that now both CIA and police are interested about both of them. In the process of trying to deal with all this, he is blackmailed to back up a terror attack which would be used by arms dealer to market his weaponry. It takes some effort to foil all this.
I found it rather hard not to imagine Laurie himself as the protagonist. The lines of the protagonist sound like something out of his mouth. Not necessarily to the detriment of the story.
As far as writing style goes, Laurie has appeared to take pointers from his old colleague Fry. The story begins with long and slow description of what is essentially fast-moving action scene. This style does not continue through the book, though, which makes things lot more readable.
