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Don't Point That Thing At Me by Kyril Bonfiglioli - Book 1 of the Mortdecai Trilogy, now a major film starring Johnny Depp Introducing the Hon. Charlie Mortdecai, art dealer, aristocrat and assassin, in the first of the Mortdecai novels Portly art dealer and seasoned epicurean Charlie Mortdecai comes into possesion of a stolen Goya, the disappearance of which is creating a diplomatic ruction between Spain and its own allies. Not that that counts to Charlie ... until compromising pictures of some British diplomats also come into his possession and start to muddy the waters. All he's seeking to do is make a dishonest living, but various governments, secret organizations and an unbelievably nubile young German don't see it like that and pretty soon he's in great need of his thuggish manservant Jock to keep all of them away ... and the Goya safe. First published in the 1970s, this hilarious novel is part Ian Fleming part P G Wodehouse. It is now a major film starring Johnny Depp as Mortdecai, Ewan McGregor as Jock and Gwyneth Paltrow. 'A rare combination of wit and imaginative unpleasantness' Julian Barnes 'You couldn't snuggle under the duvet with anything more disreputable and delightful' Stephen Fry 'The jokes are great, however the most horrible things keep happening... Funny and chilling' Sunday Telegraph Kyril Bonfiglioli was created on the south coast of England in 1928 of your English mother and Italo-Slovene father. After their studies at Oxford and five years in the army, he used a career as a skill dealer, like his eccentric creation Charlie Mortdecai. He lived in Oxford, Lancashire, Ireland and Jersey, where he died in 1985. He wrote four Charlie Mortdecai novels, and a fifth historical Mortdecai novel (about a distinguished ancestor).
