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Salomon Kroonenberg

Salomon Kroonenberg, Dutch writer

The Dutch programme at the International Book Fair in Beijing was cunn... >>> read more

Henk Pröpper

Henk Pröpper, Director Dutch Foundation for Literature

In two weeks’ time, the official opening of one of the largest b... >>> read more

Kai Kang

Kai Kang, Journalist China Reading Weekly

Dear Dutch publishers. The book fair is over. Perhaps you’ll now... >>> read more

Ingrid and Dieter Schubert

Ingrid and Dieter Schubert, Dutch illustrators

The days are full and long. We are incessantly bombarded with impressi... >>> read more

Michele Hutchison

Michele Hutchison, Editor De Arbeiderspers

Arriving on the stand on the first day, I’d asked a Chinese visi... >>> read more

Michele Hutchison

Michele Hutchison, Editor De Arbeiderspers

Big excitement today since we were finally meeting with Songyu from Fl... >>> read more

Ingrid and Dieter Schubert

Ingrid and Dieter Schubert, Dutch illustrators

It’s now the third day, and the first one with plenty of sun. Un... >>> read more

Kai Kang

Kai Kang, Journalist China Reading Weekly

What a great opportunity to learn about the Dutch literature for Chine... >>> read more

Salomon Kroonenberg

Salomon Kroonenberg, Dutch writer

A duck flies to and fro over the vast expanses of world ocean, despera... >>> read more

Michele Hutchison

Michele Hutchison, Editor De Arbeiderspers

‘In the era of browsing, we provide reading.’ - Slogan see... >>> read more

Michele Hutchison

Michele Hutchison, Editor De Arbeiderspers

The jewel in the crown of our collection of Arbeiderspers titles publi... >>> read more

Michele Hutchison

Michele Hutchison, Editor De Arbeiderspers

The Chinese publishers I have met during the course of my career, the ... >>> read more

Salomon Kroonenberg

Salomon Kroonenberg, Dutch writer

I have so far never been to a book fair. Nor do I know what to imagine... >>> read more

Kai Kang

Kai Kang, Journalist China Reading Weekly

Since 2006, I began writing about the Netherlands’ performance a... >>> read more

Henk Pröpper

Henk Pröpper, Director Dutch Foundation for Literature

Now that the fair is just round the corner, this is perhaps the moment... >>> read more

Michele Hutchison

Michele Hutchison, Editor De Arbeiderspers

The traffic in Beijing is horrendous, I’m sure the other blogger... >>> read more

Thomas Möhlmann

Thomas Möhlmann, Staff member Dutch Foundation for Literature

What an evening the poets and the approximately 200 onlookers present ... >>> read more


Charles den Tex - Cell

Charles den Tex - Cell

It is every citizen’s dilemma in this era of ever advancing information technology: can privacy still be protected now that more and more personal data are stored online? In Cell, the ingeniously constructed plot turns on identity theft. Business consultant Michael Bellicher seems likely to take the blame for the criminal activities of a gang with an extensive international network, which has stolen his identity via the internet. Supported by a business partner with influential friends and an inscrutable lawyer, Bellicher launches his own investigation, hoping to unravel the conspiracy. Bellicher’s hunt for his stolen identity takes him into company ranging from social outcasts to the political elite, as well as confronting him with his own past.

With a sharp eye for detail and a profound grasp of his colorful characters’ psychological make-up, Den Tex explores a society in which crime and political interests are intertwined. His description of the Dutch landscape, with its grey coast and its rural areas peppered with industrial estates, suggests parallels with the best Scandinavian authors of literary crime fiction. Cell addresses existential anxieties against a background of a grim crime story that keeps the reader in suspense until the last page.


#### Biography Charles den Tex is one of the Netherlands’ most acclaimed writers of crime fiction. His plots are set against a background of commerce, media, finance and industry, worlds with which he is familiar through his career as a communication and business consultant. Cell (2008), his seventh book, won him his third Golden Noose, the annual Dutch crime fiction award. His work has often been compared to John Grisham, Michael Crichton and Michael Ridpath.

Quotes

  • ‘Den Tex once again proves himself a master of originality and suspense.’ – Trouw