![]() ![]() He’s especially adept at turning aside the sneaky enemies who seek to bring him down from within. ![]() Van der Pol, an attractive character, survives and succeeds mostly because he’s been around the block a few times - 54 years old and 30 years on the force - and he knows the sleuthing business inside out. But at dangerous stages of his investigations, the straight shooting van der Pol is invariably hassled by both Amsterdam’s police commissioner and an overly ambitious junior detective. In this first novel, van der Pol deals with assorted bad guys - Hungarian gangsters running a prostitution ring, a Ghanaian diplomat doing funny things with diamonds. But Bosch has it easy compared to Henk van der Pol, a senior detective on the Amsterdam Police. Michael Connelly’s Harry Bosch, for example, has spent much of his career getting out from under the interference of the odious Deputy Chief Irvin Irving. Police detectives tend to be independent souls, guys who go off on tangents that irritate their superiors. Daniel has since become a good friend of mine, after I was lucky enough to give his whole Harbour Master collection a read. ![]()
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