The Gun Seller
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The Gun Seller (1996) is Hugh Laurie's first, and to date only, novel. It concerns former Scots Guards officer Thomas Lang and his reluctant involvement in a conspiracy involving international arms dealers, terrorists, the CIA, the MOD, beautiful women and fast motorcycles. Wary of becoming another "celebrity author", Laurie initially submitted his manuscript pseudonymously, only revealing his identity after it had been accepted for publication and was persuaded by his publicist to publish the book under his real name for the sake of publicity.
[edit] Movie
In the back of the paperback edition of the Gun Seller, in a transcribed interview, Laurie states that he has written a screenplay of the novel for United Artists.
[edit] Influences
There were two main influences on Laurie when he wrote the Gun Seller:
- The thriller/espionage novels of authors such as Robert Ludlum, Frederick Forsyth and Alistair MacLean. The plot of The Gun Seller is very much in the mould of these authors.
- P. G. Wodehouse, specifically the Jeeves stories. The two main characters in The Gun Seller — Thomas Lang and his former colleague Solomon — are clearly an updated Bertie Wooster and Jeeves. This similarity extends as far as the narrative being told in the first person by Lang, using a chatty, jokey and flippant style which will be familiar to readers of the Jeeves stories.
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