His involvement threatens his family life.
He follows gut feelings and tenuous clues: a tattoo seen on the dead body, leading him into the Red Light District and then the den of a vicious Hungarian pimp. But the weathered detective isn’t going to give up. When on a cold morning Henk finds a woman’s body in Amsterdam Harbour, he’s told by his boss to back off. And as Henk and the city are one, the work and private lives merge constantly into one, too. Also, it seems that politics and connections take priority over decent policing and clearing the streets of criminals. In the professional sense Henk is growing disillusioned with the budget-and-target driven management at the police station where he’s stationed. He is happy with his personal life, still attracted to his wife Pernilla, a newspaper features writer, and slightly anxious about daughter Nadia, a headstrong media student. Having spent years in the military and living abroad Henk is a maverick cop on the verge of retirement, the owner of a typical houseboat, strongly believing that ‘we Dutch remain at heart a seafaring people’. Two key characters in THE HARBOUR MASTER are equally important: Henk van der Pol and Amsterdam.
The Harbour Master: The Collected Edition (Books 1-3) by Daniel Pembrey, November 2014, 384 pages, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, ISBN: 1497384052
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