This book is F-A-N-T-A-S-T-I-C !!!



Maybe you haven't recognized the name of the author, but this Hugh Laurie is THE Hugh Laurie who was the star on the TV series House, M.D..



Sure, maybe some of you would say "So what? He is an actor but can he write?" Oh, yes! He CAN write!



Pain is an event. It happens to you, and you deal with it in whatever way you can.



If you ever watched some episode of House, M.D. you can be familiarized with the personality of the character that Laurie portraited ther

This book is F-A-N-T-A-S-T-I-C !!!



Maybe you haven't recognized the name of the author, but this Hugh Laurie is THE Hugh Laurie who was the star on the TV series House, M.D..



Sure, maybe some of you would say "So what? He is an actor but can he write?" Oh, yes! He CAN write!



Pain is an event. It happens to you, and you deal with it in whatever way you can.



If you ever watched some episode of House, M.D. you can be familiarized with the personality of the character that Laurie portraited there, and you will find the main character here very much like.



The only good thing I've ever noticed about money, the only positive aspect of an otherwise pretty vulgar commodity, is that you can use it to buy things.



Maybe he is not so grumpy but he is in the very same level of cynicism with direct politically incorrect comments.



It is the middle of December now, and we are about to travel to Switzerland - where we plan to ski a little, relax a little, and shoot a Dutch politician a little.



He is an honest voice in the book, where you can't separate the view of the main character and the position of the author, and anyway that's not important since you will laugh a lot, BUT you will think a lot too.



Having a vote once every four years is not the same thing as democracy.



I laughed a lot, I pondered a lot and I had the time of my life reading this novel and due that, I am even including it in my "favorites" virtual shelf that I commented in other reviews, I am struggling to keep it to 10 books tops at any moment, maybe some title would go out or go in, but always only 10 books there.



This was the tricky bit. The really tricky bit, trickiness cubed.



Maybe when I said that I laughed a lot, you'd diminish the novel, saying "Oh, no! That must be a dumb book then!" But no, it isn't.



The humor here is not silly comedy but in fact it's smart and witty comments.



Laurie is totally politically incorrect in this book and gosh I thank him for being in that way.



He is an author with attitude and you will find that even the "offensive" comments are not made in a deliberated act for the sick purpose to offense somebody, no, if you really can get into the mood of the book, you will find that Laurie is just telling the story of some guy who talks in an infinite honest way.



Just because it's a bad job doesn't mean I need to do it badly.



The novel has a lot of combined genres, since you will find a detective novel merging into a espionage story, with a lot of military and politics stuff.



Each character, main or minor, has a purpose and one of the best things is that at some moments you will meet a really main character without realizing it, until the story would develop more, it will be when you would know it.



In my opinion, this book is the ones that when one is reading it, one thinks "Geez! For books like this one is that I love to read books!"



If you analyze the very title of the book, you will realize that the story isn't about terrorism, since I'd understand people finding without taste to read a humoristic story about terrorism, but this isn't the case, this novel is about selling guns, about the arms dealing business, and that's a totally different field, you will understand when you'd read the novel.



Give it a chance to the book. You won't regret it.