Gerard Mak

The author is married and lives with his wife Anita in the semi-rural village of Wormer just north of Amsterdam. He has three children and four grand children. Growing up in a family with five boys, his father worked in a paper mill , the core of their village.
After high school and a time working for the Government, he joined the Amsterdam police rising to the rank of superintendent. For almost twenty-seven years he was stationed in the Red Light District, the most infamous part of Amsterdam. It remains a neighborhood where drugs, sex and prostitution and fun and entertainment are all available.
During those years there was much crime and the police station on Warmoesstraat had more than two hundred policemen and women within a mere square kilometer. The Author kept a diary of happenings which ultimately became a collection of stories. After publication in a police newspaper, a respected Dutch magazine offered a contract as a columnist. As a result his police stories became well-known and unintentionally, he became an author. Gerard Mak has written eight successful books in Dutch. Copshop is his first English book.
This year he retired to spend more time on writing, and following his other loves of soccer and skating ‒ ice in winter and rollerblading during the summer – and painting and photography.

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