Standalone novel:
The wealthy, cynical businessman Peter de Boer is a specialist in destroying companies to order. He was born in Indonesia, but grew up in the Netherlands in the shadow of his despotic father. Only as an adult does he learn to set the pace of his own life - and especially that of others. Peter de Boer hires the exotic Nicky Landsaat as a marketing trainee in his company, and soon he benefits greatly from the ambitious woman. Nicky also has a special life in his backpack and lives in one of the ghettos of Amsterdam with his abusive father, his closed Indonesian mother, a criminal brother and a prostitute sister. Nicky is a legendary fighter, and she has plenty to fight for.
When Iraqi intelligence asks Peter de Boer to take down a major Western corporation, he is put in a terrible dilemma; but when he is threatened with the revelation of his mysterious past, he feels compelled to take on the task. And then Peter de Boer and Nicky Landsaat are suddenly drawn into a deadly game of a previously unknown form of terrorism.
Danish author Jussi Adler-Olsen's highly topical and well-documented novel And She Thanked the Gods was received nationally and internationally with enthusiasm when it was first published as The Firmaknuseren. A completely unusual thriller written by the author of the great international thrillers The Alphabet House and The Washington Decree as well as the crime thriller series about Department Q.
