On the day that Nikko's now much-discussed book Unpredictable Past is published, the Dutch Prime Minister announces the first pandemic measures. Nikko's press appearances are canceled and because returning home to Austria seems impossible, Nikko waits on Texel for the day that the tension in Europe decreases. That day never comes and Nikko does what he is good at: he seeks adventure.

 

Travel with him through pandemic-occupied Europe. Experience his flight to England and the move to woke Catalonia that followed. Clashes with customs officers, police officers, members of parliament and Germans. Memories of Afghanistan, of adventures at sea, of rattlesnakes during an illegal border crossing, of confrontations with the strong arm in America, of freeing a friend from a distant prison, of handing out condoms in Africa, of a plane with a faulty landing gear, of climbing the Pointe du Hoc in Normandy and of earning a green beret.

 

Encounters with a dolphin, with Eritreans who avoid the Calais jungle, with Thierry Baudet, with Graham Hancock and with Mansoor Adayfi, who survived fourteen years in Guantánamo Bay.

 

Fear in the wings of the tallest windmill in the world, the theft of Arnold Schwarzenegger, the sad truth of the Christmas tree hunt, cloak and dagger during a visit to the hairdresser and life in Oradour-sur-Glanes, France, through the eyes of Marguerite Rouffanche.

 

Lawsuits against the Dutch state, Black Stunt Petes, an accident under a paraglider, a robbery in Spain and ... this book is absurd! Logical perhaps, because it tells the story of an absurd life. Unfiltered, sometimes incomprehensible honesty and sharp observations bundled into a manifesto for freethinkers. An authentic view of modern life that inspires to break patterns and act according to the power that lies within each of us ...

 

Available at all bookstores and online or order here.