Heartland Trilogy – serie

'Ambitious, intricate, riveting' The Times** The first instalment in the bestselling original Dutch thriller** Haunted by a past you can never escape . . . When a young boy from Afghanistan is the victim of a brutal hit-and-run in woods outside Amsterdam journalist Farah Hafez visits the scene, seeking to discover how a child from her homeland ended up here. Instead, she finds a burnt-out car and two bodied - sinister clues to a far darker mystery. It is the beginning of a journey that leads her into an intricate web of crime and corruption stretching across Europe and deep into a past that Farah had once sought to escape - a past that nearly killed her.And if she goes back will she ever make it out again? Butterfly on the Storm is the first mystery to unravel in a tense, explosive and gripping new trilogy you won't want to put down. For lovers of Stieg Larsson's Millennium series, this fast-paced crime novel will be this year's page-turner.Praise for Walter Lucius'Disturbing, apocalyptic, gripping' Dutch Daily De Limburger'Riveting until the very end' AD Weekend [Dutch Newspaper]'The Dutch answer to the tsunami of Scandinavian thrillers' BB Boekblad

'Ambitious, intricate, riveting' The Times_______________Farah Hafez raised her head and stared into the camcorder's reflective black hole.'Now say what I want you to say. And do it convincingly. You can save this girl's life.'That's when the words came. Unexpected and forceful. Like vomit.'I, Farah Hafez, support the jihad against President Potanin's criminal regime.'He smiled coldly and pulled the trigger anyway.After investigating what appeared to be a simple hit-and-run, journalist Farah Hafez became caught up in a web of crime and corruption that led to her kidnap. Detained in Russia, she was forced to pledge her allegiance to a terrorist group on camera. Now sought by international security and members of the criminal class alike, Farah flees to Jakarta to continue her investigation while her friends and allies attempt to clear her name from across the globe. If Farah is ever going to regain her freedom, she needs to discover the root of the evil that bought her here. The problem is that discovering this might cost her her life._______________'Disturbing, apocalyptic, gripping' Dutch Daily De Limburger'Riveting until the very end' AD Weekend [Dutch Newspaper]'The Dutch answer to the tsunami of Scandinavian thrillers' BB Boekblad

THE RIVETING AND UNPUTDOWNABLE THRILLER FOR FANS OF STIEG LARSSON'S MILLENNIUM TRILOGY'Ambitious, intricate, riveting' THE TIMES________Journalist Farah Hafez is after another killer story. But at what risk to herself? . . .What connects the following:In Saigon, 1965, war correspondent Raylan Chapelle suffers a horrifying experience.Thirty years later, his son, newsman Paul Chapelle, is in Moscow to investigate an attack on his former colleague when he stumbles on a well-guarded secret.And Farah herself, in the garden of the presidential palace in Kabul, is forced to relive a traumatic event from her childhood.Different people. Different places. Different times.But all entangled by threads of love and war - threads that Farah can't help but unravel, no matter the cost . . .