The Amsterdam connection

Summary: Reporter Kate Jensen travels to Amsterdam when a friend is found dead there. Her search for the murder takes her to parts of the city that tourists never see, and to a man prepared to kill to hide the truth. Kate soon discovers that football can be a very dangerous game.

One of the characters: Jos van Essen

He was tall, with the most beautiful dark brown eyes and the whitest teeth. His body looks fit with black skin. He was a retired football player. Before he retired, he had played for Holland and belonged to Rotterdam football club many times as a striker. He was a great football player and real star. He was also very good-looking. There were always reports in the newspapers about his girlfriends, who were usually models and actresses. People were surprised because he was only twenty-eight, still quite young to retire. Actually he didn’t want to retire. He didn’t want to leave from his favorite, football. He left from football because of some mysterious reasons. His apartment had a lot of equipments for security. There were three or four locks on the door. The security was liked a bank. It seemed liked he was afraid of something bad would happen to him.

Max was Kate’s friend and Max was dead. The policemen believed that Max was dead in a mugging. But Kate didn’t believe that and she thought that it linked to a serious plot about Rotterdam football club. She believed that Max was dead in a murder. She asked Essen for help because he was a retired football player of Rotterdam football club and he also was Max’s friend. Finally, Essen was willing to help Kate to find out the truth and gave her some important information about Rotterdam football club. They decided to meet the next day for another important information. But the next day never came for Essen because he was found dead outside his apartment.

After I read the story, I believe that Jos van Essen is a good person. He was forced by someone to fake a score of match. Although it would take a lot of money, he really didn’t want to do that. Finally, He preferred to retire early. He left his favorite sport and dream. Unfortunately he didn’t get to tell Kate about the truth before he was murdered.