The ongoing war in the Amsterdam drug world has been keeping the news and public imagination going for the last few years, this book takes the many news articles and fills in the blanks with the story of our fictional character Rob who against his wishes gets involved with career criminals. Historical facts, current news, original research are seamlessly integrated with fictional details and story lines to create a compelling story that creates a narrative to help the reader make sense of it all.Within a few short days Rob his life is totally upended and he finds himself adopting a new life for a few months while he tries to find a way out of this nightmare for him and his family. The story starts on a cold and dreary early March morning in Amsterdam and ends with a new start on a farmstead in Texas, in between you learn about the international drug trade centered in The Netherlands and the struggle for power in the Amsterdam criminal world.