Thumbs up for Quantum of Tweed: The Man With the Nissan Micra by Conn Iggulden. Humor.
I was in London in the Waterstone’s flagship store and I was in search of things that were very, well, English, and also vacation-suitable. A novella-length James Bond parody about a menswear salesman who accidentally becomes an assassin seemed to hit the mark. I expected to be amused; I didn’t expect to laugh out loud at length many times. For example, when Albert has to explain to a suspicious cop that he got his new-found wealth ‘gambling’:
‘In a casino!’ Albert added, knowing he couldn’t name the winner of any horse race. Roulette was the sort of thing he expected assassins to do, though he had ever only seen it in films. He braced himself for more questions, knowing that his future depended on how well he remembered Ocean’s Eleven, a popular film about a casino robbery that he’d watched only for the suits. In fairness, the suits were the best bit.
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