After You With The Pistol Av Kyril Bonfiglioli

<p><i>After you with the Pistol</i> - the second Charlie Mortdecai novel by Kyril Bonfiglioli, soon to be a major film starring Johnny Depp<br><br>''Some of the nastiest, funniest and most enjoyable crime writing of the last fifty years'' <i>Guardian</i><br><br><i>''Mr Mortdecai, why do you suppose I and my superiors have preserved you from death at very very great trouble and expense?''</i><br><br>Charlie 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.<br><br>''A rare mixture of wit and imaginative unpleasantness