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The Perfidious Parrot

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The three Amstelteers have raced, well more like meandered, from Vondel Park to the Antilles via Key West on a case with a surprising oily twist. In business on their own, G&G, under the watchful eye of Henkieluvvie uncover a clever plot to make oil disappear. Their biggest concern is that the most PERFIDIOUS outlaw of all "the Amsterdam Tax man" may get their loot if they do not get to work. Perifidious, deceitful, faithless, untrustworthy. In depth story telling with the tongue in cheek attitude that JanWillem does so well. The characters stay in line, no surprises, as it should be. At the end their conscience is relieved because of the actions of their mentor.

This book from the Grijpstra/de Gier series has the three protagonists reluctantly researching the theft of the load of an oil tanker. Reluctantly, because their clients - a multimillionaire father and son team - have threatened them with the tax man and with various other means, before the three accept. Once they do accept, the events happen mostly in Key West and various parts of the Caribbean.

I tried to like this book a lot, after all I tremendously enjoyed most of the other novels from this series, but I started losing interest after the first half of the book. I did finish the book, but I had less pleasure reading it than all the other ones in the series.