Bücher von Michael Niemann

The letter from the prosecutor's office seems harmless enough. Some irregularities have emerged from the last case Vermeulen worked in 2002. He's to come to Antwerp to clarify his role. He'd rather not, but has no choice. Once back in his erstwhile hometown, he quickly learns that there's nothing harmless about this trip. He's accused of having caused the death of an informant.

Joining his partner Tessa on a trip to Arizona, Vermeulen experiences the dark underbelly of the country's messy immigration policies. A skeleton found near the border brings him face to face with a killer who can't let go of an old grudge.

An unexpected letter from his old employer calls Vermeulen back to Antwerp. His past has come back to haunt him. Old and new foes are conspiring to lock him up and, worse, kill him. He must fight both the authorities and criminal syndicates to make it out alive.

Two poor Kenyan men visiting the U.S. are found dead, one in jail, one on the street. Both used forged UN documents to enter the country. Valentin Vermeulen's superiors have no interest in the plight of undocumented immigrants, but they want him to stop the fraud. The clues take Vermeulen from New York City to Newark, where he riles a woman known as The Broker, then to Vienna.Earle Jackson, a small-time hustler and the last person to speak with one of the dead Kenyans, has taken the man's passport and money. He also finds a note listing an address in Newark, where his efforts to cash in on the situation go awry. Fleeing for his life, Jackson flies to Nairobi using the dead man's passport.Book 2 in the Valentin Vermeulen Thriller series.

Ritu Roy, a constable with an all-female United Nations peacekeeping unit in Darfur, Sudan, has been shot dead. Her superiors call it a random shooting. Her best friend thinks otherwise. She s found a bullet casing from a sniper s rifle, an uncommon weapon in the refugee camp. The case remains closed until Valentin Vermeulen arrives to conduct a routine audit. As an investigator with the UN Office of Internal Oversight Services, his job is to ferret out fraud. The casing is the first clue that Ritu may have stumbled onto a major criminal operation.Solving the mystery of Ritu s death leads Vermeulen down a perilous path. With the help of journalist Tessa Bishonga, he visits the hidden camp of a notorious rebel leader. On the streets of Port Sudan he dodges a parade of shady characters. In the end, Vermeulen must expose the players in the not so legitimate business of supplying weapons to Sudan before they can hunt him down. Book 1 in the Valentin Vermeulen Thriller series.

I 2015 fik min kone konstateret brystkræft. For ikke at glemme tanker, refleksioner og mere eller mindre muntre episoder, noterede jeg min opfattelse af forløbet. Dels for min egen og fruens skyld, men også for at de i familie og vennekreds der ikke var en daglig del af forløbet, kan få en forståelse af nogle af de ting vi gjorde eller sagde. Bogen er ikke et litterært værk, men kan forhåbentlig for andre sætte bare en lille bitte smule ord på.