Beschreibung:
As the amoral art dealer heads to the Isle of Jersey, the author's "e;comic invention and lacerating, politically incorrect humor are in brilliant form"e; (Publishers Weekly).The Honorable Charlie Mortdecai-degenerate aristocrat and seasoned epicurean-has managed, somehow, to tarnish his already questionable reputation. Thanks to a few shady art deals, he's been exiled from London. Together with his gadabout wife Johanna and his ex-con butler Jock, Mortdecai takes refuge in a country estate on the Channel Island of Jersey. But what begins as a hedonistic interlude turns into a macabre manhunt. Through the haze of drunken locals and loathsome tourists, Charlie is out to expose a local rapist whose modus operandi bears a striking resemblance to that of a warlock from ancient British mythology known as "e;The Beast of Jersey."e;
As the amoral art dealer heads to the Isle of Jersey, the author's "e;comic invention and lacerating, politically incorrect humor are in brilliant form"e; (Publishers Weekly).The Honorable Charlie Mortdecai-degenerate aristocrat and seasoned epicurean-has managed, somehow, to tarnish his already questionable reputation. Thanks to a few shady art deals, he's been exiled from London. Together with his gadabout wife Johanna and his ex-con butler Jock, Mortdecai takes refuge in a country estate on the Channel Island of Jersey. But what begins as a hedonistic interlude turns into a macabre manhunt. Through the haze of drunken locals and loathsome tourists, Charlie is out to expose a local rapist whose modus operandi bears a striking resemblance to that of a warlock from ancient British mythology known as "e;The Beast of Jersey."e;