Amsterdam 2020 Amsterdam Series Book 2 edition by Ruth Francisco Romance eBooks
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In the year 2020, a young woman joins the Dutch Resistance to defeat fascism, testing her passions, loyalties, friendships, and faith.
When Katrien Brinkerhoff turns eleven, Islamic terrorists brutally murder six Dutch actors, which touches off a tinderbox of sectarian fighting across Europe. Within weeks, Islamists take over the government. The most liberal city in the world becomes the most conservative, and Katrien and her family scramble to survive, forced to make one impossible choice after another.
Women must wear burkas. Children go to madrassahs, Christians and Jews are not allowed to own businesses, cannot work in government, cannot go to college. Atheists are sent to work camps. When her father dies defending the public library, Katrien's mother marries a family friend who is Muslim. They convert, and change her name to Salima.
At sixteen Salima joins the Resistance as a courier, then as a Postbode, moving Christians and Jews out of Europe, then as a saboteur, working with the exile government in Copenhagen to free Europe.
Then Salima makes the biggest sacrifice of her life—an arranged marriage to Kazan Basturk, son of a powerful Islamist, a decision that will lead her to question every choice she has ever made, eventually taking her to Turkey, where Coalition Forces will soon invade.
With a stunning sense of physical detail and reality, Amsterdam 2020 deftly interweaves the lives of Salima, her past, her loves, her work in the Resistance, and shows us a future that seems all too possible.
Amsterdam 2020 Amsterdam Series Book 2 edition by Ruth Francisco Romance eBooks
This sequel to Amsterdam 2012 continues the resistance by a few against the Islamist takeover of Eurabia. That first novel focused on America, despite starting in Amsterdam, where murders sparked a worldwide revolt that led to much of Europe capitulating to Muslim regimes and submission to their demands by the remaining Jews and Christians and secular residents. Among these, as well as some liberal Muslims, the Dutch fight back against the Islamic Republic of Holland. Here, Katrien, who converts with her family--as many do---takes the name Salima, but goes underground as Lina.Her dual existence is of course complicated. The first novel made links between Ann Aulis in Southern California and Anne Frank, and similarly, another young woman--younger than Ann--faces the predicament of an arranged marriage with a leading kingpin from a prominent Turkish-Dutch Muslim clan. Teenaged Lina must face the challenge of the Resistance to infiltrate this family as a new bride, while trying to figure out the true motives of her husband, fifty-two year old Kazan.
On her author's blog, Ruth Francisco tells of finishing the book, started in 2013, in the past year of the Charlie Hebdo and Bataclan murders, and the San Bernardino CA shootings. While many reviewed her first novel on Amazon and dismissed it as far-fetched or needlessly provocative, readers intrigued by the dystopian scenarios of Muslim domination imagined in Robert Ferrigno's Assassin trilogy or Michel Houellebecq's similarly barbed Submission (both authors' works reviewed by me) may welcome this. I found the writer's voice for Ann earlier and Lina here engaging, even if in this 2020 installment, the choice to make a transition between her narration and a third-person indirect for another key character sometimes a bit bewildering, as chronology is no longer straightforward.
The supporting figures get fleshed out more, as in Kazan's school friend at a Swiss academy, and humor in the pranks played there, or the "plucked and marinated" chicken the oiled and depilitated virginal Salima feels herself on her wedding day, offer some needed levity to a tense thriller. The delight Ruth Francisco has in plotting out the geopolitical and practical ramifications of Islamist social power gives her details more depth here, and from inside the divided Dutch culture, we understand the difficulty the Muslim authorities have in getting even their fellow congregants to submit to sharia law and all the puritanical trivia enforced on the Westernized Muslims themselves.
I also liked the Resistance scenes. Many of these were pitched for action more than insight, but how the burkas are deployed by men and women alike against the Islamic police and military makes for clever encounters. I felt there was more of an attempt by Ruth Francisco to delve into the intricacies of how an Islamic imposition would play out in daily life, and how individuals react and endure. Again, the parallels to Nazi occupation are evident, and the Dutch setting draws out "secret annexes" and hidden rooms, traditions still clung to by some Netherlanders, effectively to enhance a setting.
Suffice to say that Ruth Francisco slows down here to let us understand Kazan better, and how Lina (under more than one name or identity) relates to her new spouse. While as before some leaps in the tale-telling and the jumbled order challenge the reader, headings break up the chapters and dates are there to guide the confused. It's not perfect, but it's intelligent. This expands in dramatic fashion, more smoothly in a narrative than 2012 (reviewed recently by me) if bumpy as a thriller. (Chance meetings and just-in-time interventions make this a bit melodramatic at times.) The inherent interest in how Islamists might expand their caliphate and how those within it and from the outside might oppose it sustains itself. I am not sure of more to come is on the way from the Amsterdam series, but this is enjoyable.
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Amsterdam 2020 Amsterdam Series Book 2 edition by Ruth Francisco Romance eBooks Reviews
An excellent read. Ahead of its time in many ways. Almost eerie how the author has anticipated our current headlines. Highly recommended.
A refreshingly original dystopian scenario. The story moves smoothly from the wilds of Anatolia to the streets and canals of Amsterdam, sustaining an authentic voice in the culture in which it plays out. Compelling, believable and disturbing, wrapped up in admirable prose, a tale I would recommend to any thoughtful reader.
WOW! how timely can you get??!! I am 'over the moon' impressed with the insight shown in this work! I had read "Amsterdam 2012" and that was prescient and now this is really scary. I at first thought this would be a book about politics -- it is Not-- it is a book about handling adversity in situations that could actually happen .... it certainly game me pause. By the way -- --A REAL PAGE TURNER!!
Amsterdam was once a place filled with freedoms and unlimited choices. The possibilities were endless, and Amsterdam was a place where dreams were realized. Amsterdam was once filled with tourists, bicyclists, and pedestrians, all enjoying the rich culture and history of the city. Citizens and visitors were able to choose what to eat and drink, which books to read, what to wear and whom to marry.
We meet Katrien as an eight year old. She was full of wonder and fierce passions. She loved the library, a place that made her feel powerful and wise.
Then came the Great Eurabian War, followed by the Islamists occupation.
Outlawed and gone are the restaurants, cafes, bars and the libraries...all deemed illegal by the new government. The much enjoyed, many freedoms are now forbidden and have been replaced by strict Sharia laws and zero tolerance. The Islamists have made life miserable for most people by imposing their laws and stripping away freedoms.
Thankfully, the Resistance is gaining in strength and numbers. We follow a group of fighters as they organize, plot and implement strategies to bring down the Islamists. Katrien transforms into Salima. As Salima gets involved with the Resistance, she becomes more calm, deliberate, poised and fearless...all valuable qualities for the resistance.
While reading this book, I was able to get to know the well-written, main characters and even came to care for them.
A very, timely book that I hope never comes true.
In 2008, this author wrote “Amsterdam 2012.” (highly recommended) It was a prescient look at what might happen with the Muslim presence in the Netherlands. It was somewhat sympathetic to reasons why Muslim influence proliferated in European countries because of the humanitarian outreach programs and moderate behavior of its’ adherents. Many natives, especially the poor, were attracted to them and joined their cause. This action, coupled with immigration gave Muslims a plurality in voting, turning the country into “The Islamic Republic of The Netherlands.” The same thing happens in countries around the world. The story was intriguing, with plenty of action, and no less interesting because at times it was hard to determine where the author’s sympathies lay. Not anymore! In “Amsterdam 2020, a story full of James Bond style action, violence, and subterfuge, she lays out in well researched detail what it might be like in the no longer moderate country, controlled not by the peaceful, kind Muslims that we know would be the majority, but hard line, brutal fascists that employ the worst aspects of Sharia law. Our heroine is a “convert,” but (spoiler alert) becomes a key player in the resistance, brave and cunning in her efforts to undermine the regime. The story is also a fun trip around a great city, a travelogue of places, food and culture. I’ve read and enjoyed many of Ms. Francisco’s stories. This may be the best.
This sequel to Amsterdam 2012 continues the resistance by a few against the Islamist takeover of Eurabia. That first novel focused on America, despite starting in Amsterdam, where murders sparked a worldwide revolt that led to much of Europe capitulating to Muslim regimes and submission to their demands by the remaining Jews and Christians and secular residents. Among these, as well as some liberal Muslims, the Dutch fight back against the Islamic Republic of Holland. Here, Katrien, who converts with her family--as many do---takes the name Salima, but goes underground as Lina.
Her dual existence is of course complicated. The first novel made links between Ann Aulis in Southern California and Anne Frank, and similarly, another young woman--younger than Ann--faces the predicament of an arranged marriage with a leading kingpin from a prominent Turkish-Dutch Muslim clan. Teenaged Lina must face the challenge of the Resistance to infiltrate this family as a new bride, while trying to figure out the true motives of her husband, fifty-two year old Kazan.
On her author's blog, Ruth Francisco tells of finishing the book, started in 2013, in the past year of the Charlie Hebdo and Bataclan murders, and the San Bernardino CA shootings. While many reviewed her first novel on and dismissed it as far-fetched or needlessly provocative, readers intrigued by the dystopian scenarios of Muslim domination imagined in Robert Ferrigno's Assassin trilogy or Michel Houellebecq's similarly barbed Submission (both authors' works reviewed by me) may welcome this. I found the writer's voice for Ann earlier and Lina here engaging, even if in this 2020 installment, the choice to make a transition between her narration and a third-person indirect for another key character sometimes a bit bewildering, as chronology is no longer straightforward.
The supporting figures get fleshed out more, as in Kazan's school friend at a Swiss academy, and humor in the pranks played there, or the "plucked and marinated" chicken the oiled and depilitated virginal Salima feels herself on her wedding day, offer some needed levity to a tense thriller. The delight Ruth Francisco has in plotting out the geopolitical and practical ramifications of Islamist social power gives her details more depth here, and from inside the divided Dutch culture, we understand the difficulty the Muslim authorities have in getting even their fellow congregants to submit to sharia law and all the puritanical trivia enforced on the Westernized Muslims themselves.
I also liked the Resistance scenes. Many of these were pitched for action more than insight, but how the burkas are deployed by men and women alike against the Islamic police and military makes for clever encounters. I felt there was more of an attempt by Ruth Francisco to delve into the intricacies of how an Islamic imposition would play out in daily life, and how individuals react and endure. Again, the parallels to Nazi occupation are evident, and the Dutch setting draws out "secret annexes" and hidden rooms, traditions still clung to by some Netherlanders, effectively to enhance a setting.
Suffice to say that Ruth Francisco slows down here to let us understand Kazan better, and how Lina (under more than one name or identity) relates to her new spouse. While as before some leaps in the tale-telling and the jumbled order challenge the reader, headings break up the chapters and dates are there to guide the confused. It's not perfect, but it's intelligent. This expands in dramatic fashion, more smoothly in a narrative than 2012 (reviewed recently by me) if bumpy as a thriller. (Chance meetings and just-in-time interventions make this a bit melodramatic at times.) The inherent interest in how Islamists might expand their caliphate and how those within it and from the outside might oppose it sustains itself. I am not sure of more to come is on the way from the Amsterdam series, but this is enjoyable.
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