By the acclaimed Dutch author of Beyond Sleep: a thriller set in Nazi occupied Holland: "fast-moving, frighteningly real yet verging on the incredible" (Milan Kundera, author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being).
During the German occupation of Holland, tobacconist Henri Osewoudt is visited by a mysterious man named Dorbecka man who bears a strangely striking resemblance to Osewoudt himself. Dorbeck recruits him to perform simple, but top-secret missions on orders from London. But as the assignments keep coming, they get increasingly dangerous. Soon Osewoudt is being asked to commit murder in the name of Gestapo resistance.