Judas...

A new book arrived today! This book is about the family of one of the most vicious criminals in the Netherlands Willem Holleeder... I began to read it this morning and i'm still reading...

Astrid and Sonja Holleeder decide to do in 2013 what no one thought was ever possible: they stand against their brother Willem - who, after his release from prison in 2012, had become the national hug criminal - and made very incriminating statements against him.

What few people know is that Willem Holleeder terrorized his family last thirty years, blackmailed and threatened them, just as his alcoholic father - worker for Heineken - the family had dominated for years and tortured. Women, children, in-laws, even mother Stien, nobody escaped their despotic behavior.

Judas takes place between 2012 and the present, and is peppered with flashbacks to high-profile events in the past. It is an astonishing family chronicle in which Astrid Holleeder sketches a shocking portrait of a family that since 1983 - the year of the Heineken kidnapping - only has a name: Holleeder. In this unique book she talks insistently about the impact of the abduction on all family members, the estrangement between the blood gabbers Willem Holleeder and Cor van Hout (which died in 2003), the threat of Peter R. de Vries, liquidations and extortion's in the criminal environment. She also speaks openly about her childhood and her mother, the children, her ex-partner, her work as a lawyer and her dual role as consigliere of her brother. Because Willem trusted Astrid and she was very close to her brother, she could record their conversations in secret, with only one goal:  a lifetime in prison...

Thank you all so much for all your lovely comments, hearts and stars for yesterdays Blip! They all are highly appreciated... Xxx