The Amsterdam Connection

Book Review

title: The Amsterdam Connection
author: Sue Leather
Cambridge univ. press, 2001

Kate Jensen works as a news reporter on the
'Daily Echo' in London. Her boss is Dave Balzano
who was an excellent newspaper editor. She has
another friend which is called Max Carson. He was
her ex-boss.

After Max retired from the newspaper, he went to his
hometown, Holland. He and his brother, Tom Carson, run
a football club which was called Rotterdam City Football
Club.

one day, Max was found in Amsterdam with twenty
knife wounds in his body. He was killed.

Kate shocked after hearing about that. She decided
to go to Amsterdam to find Max's killer. She had
managed some plans. Fortunately, she has a friend
in Amsterdam, Elly van Praage, who was a policewoman.

She worked very hard this time, with a help from
some friends, she could find the big man behind
her friend's murdered. It was Christiaans who was
Max's friend and had a big share at the Rotterdam
City Football Club.

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i am really sorry because i forgot the author's name, what a silly mistake