The Wooden Village (Rivers of Babylon 2)听补苍诲听The End of Freddy (Rivers of Babylon 3) are聽sequels to the cult novel聽Rivers Of Babylon (1991). Together they聽form聽a trilogy in which the thug who takes over the money-changing and prostitution rackets in a hotel transmutes into an oil oligarch. "Pi拧钮anek鈥檚 plotting has the ingenuity of Quentin Tarantino, the irony of Evelyn Waugh and, in the later novels, an obscenity that makes聽Last Exit to Brooklyn聽seem mealy-mouthed,鈥� to quote from his obituary by his English publisher, Donald Rayfield.