It shouldn't take you long to read the books, the first two are easy reads and then the third is complicated. But great.
Gary Oldman reminded me at times of Johnny Depp from "Pirates of the Caribbean", but it worked! Sigh... if only he had been just a little cleaner.
Pirates of the Caribbean was pretty good. Depp's character actually influenced Mikhail in my novel a bit because I had just seen that when I was writing that--hence my two heroes.