Sequel to the highly acclaimed 'Death And The Penguin' this is a must for everyone dying to find out what happened next to Viktor and Misha.
'Death And The Penguin' ends with Viktor, in fear of his life, taking the seat on the Expedition to Antarctica plane booked for Penguin Misha, now abandoned in a clinic recovering from a heart transplant. 'Penguin II' opens with Viktor's brief stay in and escape from Antarctica where, characteristically, he has fallen on his feet.
Visiting, on his return to Kiev. Penguinologist Pidpaly's grave, and mistaking an elusive child in white shirt and black shorts for Misha on funeral duty he is interrogated, then befriended by a Mafia boss who, while burying his contract-killed son-in-law, is also running for election as People's Deputy.
Viktor helps in his campaign, and is rewarded with introductions to those able to further his desperate search for Misha, said to be in the zoo of the murderous Chechen Khachayev. For Viktor, it is both a quest and an odyssey of atonement; for the reader, an experience as rich, topical and black-humouredly illuminating as 'Death And The Penguin' .
