{"product_id":"9780241970324","title":"After You with the Pistol: The Second Charlie Mortdecai Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAfter you with the Pistol\u003c\/i\u003e - the second Charlie Mortdecai novel by Kyril Bonfiglioli, soon to be a major film starring Johnny Depp\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Some of the nastiest, funniest and most enjoyable crime writing of the last fifty years' \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e'Mr Mortdecai, why do you suppose I and my superiors have preserved you from death at very very great trouble and expense?'\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCharlie 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A rare mixture of wit and imaginative unpleasantness' Julian Barnes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Splendidly enjoyable. The jokes are excellent, but the most horrible things keep happening' \u003ci\u003eSunday Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'At least of Hammett-Chandler weight, and in many ways surpasses them' \u003ci\u003eThe Times Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKyril Bonfiglioli was born on the south coast of England in 1928 of an English mother and Italo-Slovene father. After studying at Oxford and five years in the army, he took up a career as an art dealer, like his eccentric creation Charlie Mortdecai. He lived in Oxford, Lancashire, Ireland and Jersey, where he died in 1985. He wrote the three Mortdecai novels, a fourth historical Mortdecai novel (about a distinguished ancestor), and left a fifth unpublished at his death.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books, Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47164240265456,"sku":"9780241970324","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780241970324_p0.jpg?v=1763679387","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780241970324","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}