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Penguin Lost

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Viktor - last seen in Death and the Penguinfleeing Mafia vengeance on an Antarctica-bound flight booked for Penguin Misha - seizes a heaven-sent opportunity to return to Kiev with a new identity. Clear now as to the enormity of abandoning Misha, then convalescent from a heart-transplant, Viktor determines to make amends. Viktor falls in with a Mafia boss who engages him to help in his election campaign, then introduces him to men who might further his search for Misha, said to be in a private zoo in Chechnya.

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What ensues is for Viktor both a quest and an odyssey of atonement, and, for the reader, an experience as rich, topical and illuminating as Death and the Penguin.

Genre
mysteryhumorcrimesatireliterary fiction
Themes
animals
Setting
1990srussiaukraineeurope
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 256 pages

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