The Streetbird (24 page)
Authors: Janwillem Van De Wetering
"It's complicated," de Gier said. "Whatever was I doing in that wicked fellow's company? And where could we have been going?"
Tabriz raised her upper lip desperately.
"You
say something," de Gier said.
"Yoho," said Tabriz.
J
ANWILLEM VAN DE WETERING WAS BORN IN ROTTERDAM IN 1931, studied Zen in Daitoku-ji Monastery, Kyoto and philosophy in London, and has lived as well in Amsterdam, Cornwall, Capetown, Bogota, Lima, and Brisbane. In 1975 he settled in a small town on the coast of Maine where he still lives.
The Amsterdam Cops series that features Adjutant Grijpstra and Sergeant de Gier working as extensions of the commissaris, a wily and philosophical Amsterdam Chief of Detectives, was conceived when the author served with the Amsterdam Reserve Constabulary. To date over two million copies of his works are in print in fourteen languages.
His joys are an ongoing study of nihilism, keeping a wooden lobster boat afloat and getting older. His pain is an inability to play the jazz trumpet.
He has been married for a long time, no longer smokes or drinks, and has become allergic to the guru syndrome.
