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Rakiz Aldana _eselfimagen — It is no longer possible for me to read P.G. Wodehouse without hearing Hugh Laurie's voice in my head, so it's not a big surprise that the influence runs very strongly the other way as well -- it's clearly not possible for Hugh Laurie to write without getting P.G. Wodehouse's voice all over the page. This is of course not necessarily a bad thing. I love Wodehouse. But the Wodehouse influence here is self-conscious -- there are clear overtones of "I am gunning for someone to say the words 'Bertie Wooster meets James Bond' on the book jacket." It is, in short, a little heavily influenced and a little insistent. Some of the jokes feel labored, not effortless and natural like good humor (including Wodehouse, of course). Laurie would have done well to apply a little Coco Chanel theory to the novel -- before you send it to press, take one thing off. Maybe one thing per chapter. Or one thing per paragraph. But, slightly winded jokes aside, the plot is actually a really decent thriller. Laurie deftly handles multiple double-crosses, an expose of the military-industrial complex, and a whole lot of violence. The main character should be flat and cliche -- the classic bad boy fantasy, charismatic roguish expert scrapper with a motorcycle, yawn -- but is actually appealing and human. I was happy to be in his head, and you can't say that for most characters of this type. The plot keeps you guessing (sometimes a little too much -- I read it in spurts on my commute, and kept having to flip back to remind myself who someone was and why I should be surprised that they'd done what they'd done). And the writing is for the most part sparkly and fun, only getting bogged down occasionally in an "I'm a reasonably talented first novelist but my editor is going to use an overly light hand because I'm a national treasure" kind of way. I really didn't expect to get into the story -- I expected to have a laugh and satisfy my curiosity about what Laurie is like as a writer. Instead I actually found myself carving out time in my day to spend with the book.

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