The sequel to Jonas Jonasson`s international bestseller The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and DisappearedIt 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-unSoon 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 complicatedPraise for The Hundred-Year-Old Man:A mordantly funny and loopily freewheeling debut novel about ageing disgracefully` Sunday TimesImaginative, laugh-out-loud . . . a brilliant satire on the foibles of mankind` Daily TelegraphFast-moving and relentlessly sunny` Guardian