Mario Zambujal needs no introduction. Not only for his career turned in journalism, but especially for his writing. In this book the author, after a long absence in literary circles, decided to write a monologue whose protagonist is also a rascal who tries to deceive police during an interrogation. This is a book in which innovation arises for the total absence of the other characters. It is the narrator who tells us several stories over several chapters.

Why wait so long to write this book?
Mario Zambujal: Look, I was always writing, but for years I've been written a lot comedies, stuff for television, audio visual, series and had no time or mental readiness to be writing more books. And is there a gap of many years that although I had not stopped writing and did it thoroughly for various media, especially television.

And why the sudden willingness to sit down and write?
After conversations with friends: hey, when you decide to write something else? I decided to write for fun all do the book had some originality and I’ve worry greatly with this book, what I said and wrote. And then I decided, my desire, my assumption, was writing a huge monologue wich doesn’t seems. Because it is always the protagonist to tell his story to a police inspector who never opens his mouth. And so it is always he who is the accused of having forged a kidnapping, he is always testifying. And tells, tells and tells stories. And the presumption is that this results in a book that does not seem a huge monologue, because it has lots of stories that he will tell them.

Is he an anti-hero?
He is an anti-hero in the sense that he’s playing with his own weaknesses, is a dauber and a bit crook, because it is already suspected of kidnapping and forged it. This always trying to trick the police inspector who never speaks. And each chapter is one of his statements, with many stories in the midle.

And the title "ladies first"?
First, it is a greating fot the ladies. Ladies first. It is a standard courtesy that this scoundrel had as a rule of life, because he was a philanderer, was a guy who had this feature, attracting women and in the end causing trouble of course as always.

This book has a stigma because of the "Chronicles of the good scroundrels”?
I got the impression that whatever I write, I am very marked by the chronicles. It was the first book I wrote, only for fun, when people refer to me, they call my good scroundrel, I have no way to escape from that book, however much of what I write and I think some books are more perfect technically and literarily than the "chronicle of the good scroundrels" ...

And this one?
This one has more care, much more care. It was done with a mindset different from when I wrote the good scoundrels back then was the absolute lack of concern, was one thing I did for laughts with my friends, had nothing to worry about. With this book was not the same, it had greater care. And, If I wanted to be honest, I do not want this book to had nothing to say about in negative terms. Although the presumption is especially fun, is a publication for this purpose with a much purer style than the other.