The Public Prosecutor
by Jef Geeraerts

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UK: Apr 2009 / US: Sep 2009

Albert Savelkoul, the Public Prosecutor of Antwerp, has everything: power, money, magnificent horses, a family and a high-maintenance mistress. Despite problems with the mistress and his prostate he’s convinced that he is invincible, his power untouchable. And so it goes until everyone seems to turn on him. Albert’s wife, a member of the Belgian nobility, has set her sights on a title for her son. Opus Dei promises to help her if she transfers all her wealth to the secretive organisation. They stop at nothing in hounding Albert. A tale of blackmail and murder follows, leavened by Albert’s interludes with his loving Polish maid.

Inspired by the political scandals that seem to constantly plague Belgium, Geeraerts has penned a novel which is simultaneously a psychological literary thriller and a black-humoured social satire.

Author Information
Jef Geeraerts was born in 1930 in Antwerp and is Belgium's best known author after Georges Simenon. He gained international acclaim with his "Gangrene Cycle", four novels based on his experience in the Congo.

The Translator
Brian Doyle has translated numerous academic works and other non-fiction titles as well as poetry from the Dutch. His other fiction work includes "The Free Negress Elisabeth" by Cynthia McLeod.

Praise for The Public Prosecutor
'Political corruption and the machinations of Opus Dei laid bare in a taut psychological thriller...' ZDF

'In contrast with Mankell, the warm-hearted psychologist of the individual, we find Geeraerts, a cold-blooded surgeon who lays bare the ills of a society... ' Tagesspiegel Berlin