Penguin Lost by Andrey Kurkov

Author:Andrey Kurkov [Kurkov, Andrey]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, azw3
Tags: General, Fiction, suspense, crime, Ukraine, Mafia, Kiev, Mystery & Detective, Satire, (¯`'•.¸//(*_*)\\¸.•'´¯)
ISBN: 9781612190754
Publisher: Melville House
Published: 2002-01-02T07:00:00+00:00

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20 minutes brought a considerable rise in temperature. Seva, seeing Viktor about to take off his jacket, stopped him, threw open the door, and after adjusting the final flow valve, suggested a breath of air.

Seva lit a cigarette, and Viktor watched the dense smoke from the chimney being carried quickly away and dispersed by the wind. Seva took one last drag, stamped out his cigarette, and went with his torch to meet the custom. At a loss what to expect, Viktor withdrew into the trees, and from there saw two men carrying on their shoulders what looked like a rolled carpet. They followed Seva into the shed.

“Hi! Viktor!” bawled Seva from the door. And when he came out from the trees. “No skiving off, or you go the way of Dzhangirov!”

*

“What way was that?”

“Never you mind. Let’s get on with it.”

On a blanket on the ground at the far end of the furnace was the body of a man, but whether Russian or Chechen was impossible to tell, so pulped was his face. The men who had brought him were Chechens.

“Have these against the heat,” Seva ordered, handing Viktor boxing-glove-like gauntlets.

Each taking a handle of the outer door of the furnace, they pulled, and beyond the blast of hot air Viktor saw the door of another cylinder, clearly the one into which the heater jets ran.

“One, two, three, and tug,” said Seva.

They tugged, and with the heat came a distinct odour.

“Pop him in,” Seva told the Chechens, who after some hesitation proceeded to do so, head first.

“Pull his boots off!”

One of the Chechens got them off and threw them into a corner.

“Look back in two hours,” said Seva, shutting both doors and opening the flow valve.

Outside, he produced a heavy silver cigarette case, and selecting a cigarette, lit up.

“May I see?” Viktor asked.

The inscription read:

in appreciation of capt. khvoyko’s

smoke breaks, from his mates, grozny, 1997.

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