Don't Point That Thing At Me by Kyril Bonfiglioli - Book 1 of the Mortdecai Trilogy now a
major motion picture 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 causing a diplomatic ruction between Spain and its allies. Not that that matters to Charlie
...until compromising pictures of some British diplomats also come into his possession and
start to muddy the waters. All he's trying to do is make a dishonest living but various
governments secret organizations and an unbelievably nubile young German don't see it that way
and pretty soon he's in great need of his thuggish manservant Jock to keep them all at bay
...and the Goya safe.