The sequel to the bestselling Mafia in Prague
The title Frost Comes from the Castle won the best-selling audiobook award at the 2013 Czech Bestseller Awards.
If Viewegh's bestseller Mafia in Prague was described as a shaky book about political mud, then the free sequel Frost Comes from the Castle is an explosive mixture capable of a much larger explosion.
The beautiful stockbroker Diana (in a new role as a TV editor) and journalist Marek Konwicki discover a shocking video recording of a secret meeting between Václav Klaus and Vladimir Putin, Prague mayor Bohuslav Svoboda publicly challenges godfather Roman Janoušek to a fencing match, two nationally wanted neo-Nazis come to Prague with a bomb in their backpacks to attend the Prague Pride march of gays and lesbians, and transsexual Kristýna brings to the editorial office of MF DNES a super-secret book or the diary of the president's mysteriously drowned lover - so begins Michal Viewegh's new book Mráz přichází z Hradu (Frost Comes from the Castle).
Other figures in this mercilessly sarcastic socio-political panopticon include Prime Minister Petr Nečas, Jana Nagyová, the director of his cabinet, Livia Klaus, Minister of Transport Vít Bárta, Interior Minister Radek John, Archbishop Dominik Duka and Russian Ambassador Sergey Kiselyov. The President's men Hájek and Jakl, for example, appear in episodic roles, Godfathers Palounek, Long, Oulický and Rittig, singer Landa, BIS Director Lang, Martin Roman, Jana Bobošíková, Miloš Zeman and many others. The author boldly moves to the furthest limits of freedom of speech and creates a thrilling and entertaining collage before the reader's eyes, which, despite all the exaggeration, is a dangerously true picture of contemporary Czechia.
