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

By: Jonas Jonasson, Rachel Willson-Broyles - translator
Narrated by: Peter Kenny
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 The sequel to Jonas Jonasson’s international bestseller The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared

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 …

Soon Allan and Julius are at the centre of a complex diplomatic crisis involving world figures from the Swedish foreign minister to Angela Merkel and President Trump. Things are about to get very complicated …

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

©2018 Jonas Jonasson and Rachel Willson-Broyles (P)2018 HarperCollins Publishers Limited Action & Adventure Dark Humour Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Literature & Fiction Political Fiction Funny Feel-Good Adventure Thought-Provoking Witty
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Brilliant! Fantastic story, beautifully written by Jonas Jonasson and brought to life by the the wonderful Peter Kenny.

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A great interweaving of current affairs and fiction. Excellentportrayals of the characters, who are larger-than-life.

Another great story by Jonas Jonasson

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I was really looking forward to reading this book but was left ultimately disappointed given the quality of the first one. The story seems a bit like the rejected ideas of the first book and lacks the underlying charm that made the first such a delight.

Not as good as the first book

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This second installment was topical and fun, but some of the charm of the first story was missing. It's more of a blasé look at modern politics rather than the story of Alan Carlson.

Round 2 - Not as good as the first

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5/5 Johnson does it again. Brilliant. Johnson is one of those rare authors who doesn’t care for Being PC and the world needs it. Alan Carleson once again has the most outlandish but excellently written adventures.

Witty and full of laughs

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