Publisher's Synopsis
"Take the elegant Robin Van der Kellen into hand cuffs and intrigue him to one night in our jail. And if you open that mouth of yours, Van der Kellen, it will be a week in jail. I have plenty of time."
Of three tests of character, power, wealth, and friendship, which is the most telling of the Dutchman, Robin Van der Kellen? He returns to Amsterdam in 1841 with wife and child, into a whirlwind. As he rises in power as a famous lawyer in Amsterdam, his valet Adam Hudson rises also in rank, wealth and audacity. Marie, distracted with running a household, being a new mother, and delivering a baby, must romance her own husband before everyone else does. Robin's vanity grows as his fame in the papers increases and it seems that everyone including the very libertine Dutch king desires him. Robin questions himself: "The world is upside down. Twenty-eight infantrymen just took aim at me. I can't trust my king. My king is insane. Test of my character? I don't know what that means anymore."Second in the Dutchman series
