Hilbert Haar

Biography

Hilbert Haar (1950) started working as a journalist in the Netherlands in 1969. He has worked for newspaper and magazine publishers and also worked as an independent writer with his own company V.o.f. De Stijl. He spent seven years in Greece on the island of Crete, and lived also briefly in Utah and California. He worked as the Editor-in-Chief at Today, a muckraking English-language newspaper published in Philipsburg, St. Maarten - Dutch West Indies, for ten-plus years, until the paper closed down after Hurricane Irma in 2017. He is currently traveling with his wife Myriam in Asia.
He finished his first full-length thriller - The Ultimate God Conspiracy in 2018, and published a second thriller - Diary of a Psychopath (Dutch title: Dagboek van een Psychopaat) in 2021.
Het luchthartige zelf-help boek Achttien Tips Voor een Gelukkig Leven verscheen eveneens in 2021.

Smashwords Interview

What inspired you to write The Ultimate God Conspiracy?
When I left the Netherlands in early 1996 I had a lot of time on my hands. I thought that would give me time to write a book. But I had no idea what my book was going to be about. You know, I once walked into bookstore in Amsterdam and that discouraged me from writing a book at all. I wandered through four or five floors crammed with thousands of books about every imaginable subject. I really thought at the time: who needs another book?
So what made you change your mind?
I started working in the Netherlands for daily newspapers; later I moved to a magazine-publisher. There I was confronted with the same dilemma. How do you write something for a monthly or even a weekly magazine that has already been covered by daily newspapers and TV? The answer I got was always: you are going to write a better story. When I was searching for a topic for my book I thought about all the fiction that is already out there: murder, kidnapping, shadow governments and of course conspiracies.
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Books

Mind Reader
Price: $9.99 USD. Words: 19,620. Language: English. Published: August 22, 2023. Categories: Fiction » Thriller & suspense » General
When Andy Anderson asks the wrong question of a fellow passenger on a flight to Madrid he becomes the target of professional killers and a presidential candidate. His uncanny ability to read people, the visions he gets of the nearby future and his martial arts skills keep him out of trouble several times. But for how long? His predicament turns into a race with only one possible outcome: death.
The Program
Price: $9.99 USD. Words: 26,820. Language: English. Published: May 7, 2023. Categories: Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Crime thriller
Three extremely rich Rotarians die under suspicious circumstances within 24 hours. Young detective Freddy Chalmers teams up with attorney Steve Harrison to unravel the mystery. Hunted by contract killers they find their answers at the villa of a mad tech billionaire in the Bahamas.
Ademloos
Price: $9.99 USD. Words: 8,430. Language: Dutch. Published: February 22, 2023. Categories: Nonfiction » Health, wellbeing, & medicine » Diseases / Alzheimer’s & dementia
In December 2022 journalist Hilbert Haar was diagnosed with vascular dementia with sleep apnea as the main cause. General practitioners often do not recognize sleep apnea and label it as burnout. In this diary the author describes his diagnoses and all of its consequences to encourage others to begin with their treatment as soon as possible.
Breathless - Diary of a Patient with Sleep Apnea
Price: $9.99 USD. Words: 8,330. Language: English. Published: February 16, 2023. Categories: Nonfiction » Health, wellbeing, & medicine » Diseases
In December 2022 I was diagnosed with vascular dementia and its main cause: sleep apnea. IN this diary I take readers on a trip through my medical jungle towards the treatment with a CPAP (Continuous Positive Air Pressure) machine and with the blood thinner Plavix. My objective is to raise awareness about sleep apnea, a condition that is often wrongly diagnosed as burnout.
Tommy
Price: $7.99 USD. Words: 29,810. Language: Dutch. Published: October 20, 2022. Categories: Fiction » Thriller & suspense » General
Tommy is de Nederlandstalige bewerking van mijn thriller Masonic Madness waarin Majoor Thomas Baker verstrikt raakt in de moordlustige activiteiten van een criminele broederschap van vrijmetselaars.
Goddelijke Samenzwering
Price: $7.99 USD. Words: 126,670. Language: Dutch. Published: June 23, 2022. Categories: Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Action & suspense
Journalist Robert Millner is de wanhoop nabij nadat zijn vrouw ten prooi valt aan Alzheimer's. Wanneer zijn pleegvader hem uitdaagt te bewijzen dat God niet bestaat, roept hij de wraak van een criminele organisatie over zich af. Millner's speurtocht naar de waarheid ontaardt in een gewelddadige confrontatie waarin zijn leven en dat van zijn vrouw en kinderen op het spel komt te staan.
Masonic Madness
Price: $7.99 USD. Words: 29,790. Language: English. Published: May 3, 2022. Categories: Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Action & suspense
Thomas Baker becomes depressed after he is kicked out of the army until he is recruited as a bodyguard. When he discovers the company’s criminal intentions, he becomes the target of a deadly manhunt, financed by powerful entrepreneurs and political powerbrokers, united in a Masonic brotherhood. To save his life, his sanity and his lover, Baker becomes the hunter in a high-stakes deadly game.
Achttien Tips Voor Een Gelukkig Leven
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 8,880. Language: Dutch. Published: May 29, 2021. Categories: Nonfiction » Self-improvement » Confidence & self-esteem, Nonfiction » Inspiration » General self-help
Kies je eigen weg naar een gelukkig leven met deze onmisbare tips.
Diary of a Psychopath
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 28,700. Language: American English. Published: March 13, 2021. Categories: Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Psychological thriller
Diary of a Psychopath tells the story of an innocent boy who took revenge on the physical and sexual abuse at the hands of his parents by becoming a merciless serial killer.
Dagboek van een Psychopaat
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 28,640. Language: Dutch. Published: February 6, 2021. Categories: Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Psychological thriller
Dagboek van een Psychopaat verhaalt over de bloedstollende wraak van een jong slachtoffer van huiselijk geweld, vernedering en seksueel misbruik.
The Ultimate God Conspiracy
Price: $7.99 USD. Words: 127,470. Language: English. Published: December 22, 2018. Categories: Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Action & suspense
The Ultimate God Conspiracy is a thriller that challenges the existence of God. Journalist Robert Millner goes on a chilling and deadly quest to save his children and to unearth the mother of all religious conspiracies.
Bakersfield Bananas
Price: Free! Words: 13,350. Language: English. Published: July 2, 2012. Categories: Nonfiction » General reference » Trivia
Short story collection: 24 stories from the Caribbean and elsewhere.