The Rise of Dirck Becker

<p>Book Three of</p><p>Amsterdam Trilogy</p><p> </p><p>While following his obsessive search for an intriguing orphan girl he met ten years earlier a seventeenth-century Dutch youth struggles with a mystifying rare natural gift. Will he use it to improve the world or for personal gain? Will his revelation of the gift endear him to Nelleke or frighten her away?     </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Praise for Amsterdam Trilogy </p><p>Book One </p><p>The Seventh Etching  </p><p> </p><p>“Thrilling…gripping…blends the detective the dramatic and the historical as it whisks the reader through one year of an obsessive fast-paced quest for a missing playfully sensual work of art in seventeenth-century Amsterdam.” Lodewijk J. Wagenaar University of Amsterdam former curator of The Amsterdam Museum.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Book Two</p><p>The New Worlds of Isabela Calderón</p><p> </p><p>“If a trilogy can be compared to a symphony this second movement flows like an andante cantabile. It develops multiple themes in different parts of the seventeenth-century world and weaves them beautifully together. The rhythm is mesmerizingand the images of various cultures impinging on each other are wondrousclear and precise like the Dutch paintings of those times.” Maarten de Haan CEO and founder of Opternity.</p>