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...moment at least, the French connection has been largely broken, along with the heroin-processing laboratories on the Cote d'Azur and the Corsican drug rings that ran them. The new center for the European heroin trade is, of all places, the jewel-box city of Amsterdam...
...brisk local traffic in both hard and soft drugs, mainly to supply the needs of its resident Chinese and the floating, polyglot population of young Europeans and North Americans who have made the place a kind of enduring Woodstock since the mid-1960s. Over the past 18 months, though, Amsterdam has changed from merely a drug-using city to the chief narcotics distribution point in Europe. Says Nicholas Panella, Paris-based deputy director of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration's European operations: "Products from there are finding their way into cities all over the Continent." Fearing that the stuff...
...Turkish-derived heroin (street value: $113 million) that was stashed in a shipment of Louis XIII furniture being sent to the U.S.; the heroin had apparently been processed before the French connection was broken and had been stockpiled for later sale. So far, narcotics seizures in and around Amsterdam have been much smaller; officials reckon that the Dutch drug traffic is less than one-fourth the size of the Turkey-Marseille trade at its peak...
...years ago, Nicolas Freeling committed a rare and shocking crime which might be described as protagonisticide. In Aupres de Ma Blonde, with no advance warning, he killed off his own central character, a laconic Amsterdam detective named Van der Valk, through whose human but gritty sensibility the author had previously filtered a dozen of the best psychological suspense novels written in Europe since...
Freeling pleaded extenuating circumstances-his own need for a change of character and scene. Faithful Freeling readers who, since Love in Amsterdam (1963), have stoutly prized Van der Valk even above Simenon's Inspector Maigret, ground their teeth and waited...