The Dutch Institute

Survive long enough and you become the problem.

Dr. Marten Keyser has incurable cancer. With nothing to lose he survives by pursuing a drug regime of his own devising. Already unpopular with the powerbrokers in the dystopian healthcare system, he then develops a light-based therapy, but his low-cost innovation threatens the power balance and a cat-and-mouse game of survival ensues. In the face of mounting intrigue aggravated by the Coronavirus pandemic, Marten and his wife delve into high-level corruption, struggle to save their relationship, and build new alliances that might offer them a safe future.

For forty years Wim Huppes was an insider with intimate knowledge of the corridors of power. This book could only be written when Wim himself had nothing to lose, havingbeen given up with incurable cancer. In pursuitof a cure in turbulent times of the Corona pandemic, he was intimidated, arrested on severaloccasions and his medicines, instruments and paperwork was confiscated. His experience informed this work of fiction. His professional background includes: