Hugh Laurie - The Gun Seller

Pros: an engaging if sometimes labyrinthine plot

Cons: the concept of "terrorist" has certainly changed since 1996

The Bottom Line: Actor/Comedian Hugh Laurie did a better job of penning a novel than most celebrity authors. Unfortunately, his competition is pretty weak.

Review: Just mustered out of an elite unit of the British army and living off an occasional body-guarding job, Thomas Lang might have seemed the perfect candidate for that small "consulting" job. Fifty thousand U S dollars just to walk into a house in London and ...