The Little Golden Calf: The adventures of swindler Ostap Bender, the sequel to The Twelve Chairs | New Translation Kindle Edition

Ostap Bender, who survived Vorobyaninov’s assassination attempt, learns about a clandestine millionaire named Alexander Koreiko, who amassed a fortune through fraud.Together with a new team of swindlers — Balaganov, Panikovsky, and Kozlevich — Bender begins an operation to blackmail the ‘underground Rockefeller.’ After a long pursuit in Turkestan, Bender finally receives the coveted million, but realizes that in the Soviet reality, wealth does not bring freedom or happiness.While attempting to escape across the border with his jewels, he is robbed by Romanian border guards and is left with nothing, eventually deciding to ‘retrain as a building manager.’ Read more