The Accidental Further Adventures of the Hundred-Year-Old Man

It all begins with a hot air balloon trip and three bottles of champagne. Allan and Julius are ready for some spectacular views, but they're not expecting to land in the sea and be rescued by a North Korean ship, and they could never have imagined that the captain of the ship would be harbouring a suitcase full of contraband uranium, on a nuclear weapons mission for Kim Jong-un

Informationen zum Autor Jonas Jonasson, Translated by Rachel Willson-Broyles Klappentext This sequel to "The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out Of The Window & Disappeared" places Allan and Julius at the centre of an international diplomatic crisis featuring Trump and Merkel, after a hot air balloon trip goes awry and sees them rescued by a North Korean nuclear weapons mission.

Autorentext

Jonas Jonasson was a journalist for the Expressen newspaper for many years. He became a media consultant and later on set up a company producing sports and events for Swedish television. He sold his company and moved abroad to work on his first novel. Jonasson now lives on the Swedish island Gotland in the Baltic Sea.

Klappentext

This sequel to "The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out Of The Window & Disappeared" places Allan and Julius at the centre of an international diplomatic crisis featuring Trump and Merkel, after a hot air balloon trip goes awry and sees them rescued by a North Korean nuclear weapons mission.

Zusammenfassung

Praise for The Hundred-Year-Old Man:

'A mordantly funny and loopily freewheeling debut novel about ageing disgracefully' Sunday Times

'Imaginative, laugh-out-loud . . . a brilliant satire on the foibles of mankind' Daily Telegraph

'Fast-moving and relentlessly sunny' Guardian