The Accidental Further Adventures of the Hunderd-Year-Old Man - Jonas Jonasson

The sequel to the The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared. This came from book club. One of the members went to Italy and had some crazy adventures, lost all her luggage, books, passport, everything, and bought this book while she was there.

I was hoping this book would be as funny as the first one, though to be honest I don't entirely remember the first one, other than a hundred-year-old man escapes his nursing home and has some adventures while we learn about his extraordinary past.

In this book, it is 2017 and the world is a mess (as we all know too well). The hundred-year-old man, Allan Karlsson, has recently received a tablet and is now very much invested in the state of the world, keeping up continuously on current events. On Allan's 101st birthday, he and his friend Julius Jonsson find themselves alone in a hot air balloon floating over the Indian Ocean. They crash into the sea and are rescued by a North Korean ship smuggling a briefcase of uranium back to North Korea for their nuclear program. Allan somehow spins the truth and tells the captain that he is a nuclear expert and the friends are allowed to live until they get to North Korea. From there, they meet Kim Jong-un, and Donald Trump. They are on the radar of Vladimir Putin, Angela Merkle, and various other good and bad guys and somehow manage to stay alive.

The two men meet a woman called Sabine Jonsson (no relation) and their luck goes from bad to worse, but somehow Allan continues to live and eventually good luck returns.

This book is significantly more political than the last. Of course the last book was much more of Allan's memories of his extraordinary life, while this book was much more about Allan and his tablet. It was enjoyable, but not as much as I had hoped.