After You With The Pistol [Hardcover]

Kyril Bonfiglioli (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 181 pages
• Publisher: Published for the Crime Club by Doubleday; 1st edition (January 1, 1980)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0385171900
• ISBN-13: 978-0385171908
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.7 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,771,708 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Lots of fun!, June 8, 2005

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Glade1 - See all my reviews

This review is from: After You with the Pistol (Paperback)

While it is a little dated (published in 1979), this book is great fun. It is full of dry, zany British humor and lots of plot twists. I look forward to reading Bonfiglioli's other works. Summary from the cover:

"This caper finds Charlie the recent bridegroom of a voluptuous millionairess who is involved in a plot to assassinate the Queen of England; at the none-too-tender mercies of a Chinese dentist (the inscrutable Lo Fang Hi); and in terrified possession of the costliest baby powder in the world--among other mishaps."

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Fairly good sequel, March 13, 2006

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D. Rahmel "Dan Rahmel" (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: After You with the Pistol (Paperback)

After I read the first novel in the series, "Don't Point That Thing at Me," and really enjoyed it, I was looking forward to the further adventures of C. Mortdecai. I wasn't disappointed. While not as tight or well designed as the first novel, the central character Charlie uses the same ironic, charming banter that makes these books unique.

Since the author was an art dealer, there are several fascinating descriptions of art restoration and forgery techniques. Many have compared the Bonfiglioli writing to P.G. Wodehouse. As a nod of acknowledgement, Mortdecai mentions Wodehouse a couple of times in the novel.

If you liked the first one, be sure to pick this one up as well.

4.0 out of 5 stars Good follow on to excellent first entry in the trilogy, September 7, 2011

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This review is from: After You with the Pistol (Paperback)

If you've read my review of the first book, Don't Point That Thing at Me, you know 80% of what I'm going to say here. These books are devastatingly funny, witty as we never see anymore, and just crazy in terms of their plotting. By the way, this series DOES need to be read in order!

In this book, Charlie's new wife asks him to kill the Queen. Charlie tries to comply, but things get out of control, and he ends up traveling a great deal of the globe to fight what may or may not be a great conspiracy of women, with what may or may not be a life's sentence worth of illegal drugs in his possession, and most definitely rubbing shoulder with people who would be happy to torture him for three or four days before killing him. If the first book's plot seemed frenetic, this one tops it by half. That's both a strength and a weakness. This plot actually does get in the way a bit in this book.

That said, this is one fun ride, and unless your sensibilities are easily offended, well worth it.