Beyond The Window: A Fast Paced Crime Thriller (Private Detective Heinrich Muller Crime Thriller Book 2) by Robert Brown

Author:Robert Brown [Brown, Robert]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-08-16T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

Heinrich looked up the address and found that Johan Garrix lived on the other side of the city. He took a taxi. His expenses were beginning to mount up because he sure as hell was going to include the money Casey had taken from him. He figured Brixton’s daddy would be good for it.

As the cab passed through the city center, Heinrich looked at the place with a new set of eyes. On the surface, Amsterdam appeared so orderly, so civilized. The streets were clean, and the clean, happy people went about their business in safety and tranquility. Every now and then, he spotted one of the city’s famous coffee houses, decorated in bright colors, with pictures of cannabis leaves and rainbow mushrooms adorning the facade. Even those looked respectable. Controlled rebellion.

And the Red Light District had been the same. All those orderly doors with their uniform red lights through which clients could enter clean little apartments and satiate their cravings with perfect legality.

Except that wasn’t the whole story. That respectable facade hid a multitude of sins, as did most respectable facades. The permissive laws gave the criminals and freaks room to maneuver, and brought in a host of eager customers. It didn’t take a genius to figure out that if you legalized marijuana, hash, and magic mushrooms, you’d attract people looking for stronger stuff, like ecstasy and heroin—both of which Heinrich had read were easily available here. It was the same with sex. Virtually every kind of sex was legal in Holland, and that attracted people looking for what wasn’t legal.

Heinrich remembered what his own city of New York had been like back in the Eighties. Dirty streets, muggers, graffiti, drugs, porn shops, and hookers everywhere. It had been like ancient Babylon. He wondered if there had been more perversion and addiction, or less, than here in this Disneyland of vice.

So, what was the solution? A shithole like the old New York with strict laws that nobody obeyed, or a sanitized city that permitted most things and winked at everything else?

Strict laws sure weren’t the answer, and neither were government solutions. Those idiots always screwed things up. Heinrich remembered reading, back in the Nineties, how the Missouri State Legislature had decided to ban anal sex, obviously to stop homosexuals from having any fun. Why they should have cared whether two guys got it on was something Heinrich never understood. After they passed the law, the press took a good look at it and realized it actually banned all sex. The law was quickly changed to oppress only gays and not everybody. Not until 2000, when the press discovered a regular bestiality convention happening on a Missouri farm, did the state legislature get around to banning sex with animals.

Free Press: 2. Government: 0.

The cab pulled up to Hoofdweg. Heinrich got out and looked around. A respectable neighborhood of tidy apartment buildings. Not a trace of trash or graffiti. He strolled up to number 26 and noted a small park opposite it.

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