The Lure of Amsterdam

A LEX SPIJKER SUSPENSE NOVEL ABOUT INFATUATION, PRETENCE, COMBAT & MURDER Hungover after spending a boozy Saturday night at his local Amsterdam pub watching a brilliant Dutch football team win their first game in the 1974 FIFA World Cup, private detective Alexander Felix (Lex) Spijker is loafing on the couch. His hangover and Sunday blues reluctantly disturbed when Miss Lure de Lang—a bootylicious goddess—rings his doorbell. She fears for her life and wants to hire him for protection. Allured by her beauty, but not by her story, he senses something sinister is at play and declines her request for help. Unable to forget the attractive femme fatale and woken early the following day by a dream with a bad omen, he goes to see her—a disastrous decision landing him in some nasty business that threatens to wreak havoc on his mental and physical health. As the city of Amsterdam rejoices in a brilliant Dutch football team on route to the inevitable showdown with the host nation West Germany—private detective Lex Spijker must readjust his tactics to stay in the game.