Most people know Hugh Laurie as the anti-hero on the television show House, M.D., but he's much better known in England as a comedic actor. For some reason, it seems like a ridiculous number of British comedians are Oxford- or Cambridge-educated, and they write as well as they act.

Anyhow, Laurie's The Gun Seller is a witty spy novel. I enjoyed it but found that the very British delivery sometimes got in my way. Good stuff, but I was glad when it was over.