The Game Changer

The Game Changer is a versatile and entertaining novel in which four themes are intertwined. The style is direct and lively, in accordance with the Rotterdam area prevailing way of live. The novel gives a funny yet rough idea of Rotterdam as a port city and metropolis in the making against a politically charged background: the uprising populism in Europe. This makes the novel timely, probably for the coming years. But it can just as well be considered timeless, in a literary sense.The illustrious company doctor Henk van Wijnen-Swarttouw, a born entrepreneur and flamboyant self-made man, gets in trouble when the justice department accuses him of corruption and tax evasion. At that same moment his daughter Julia begins her sabbatical after high school. Soon, she manages to make a name in the art world, using her devotion for a better, sustainable world as a driving force. She presents her art in the famous Witte de Withstreet. Through her art she is challenging her father to turn his live around. She wants him to restructure his heavy chemical industry business in the port of Rotterdam and the Maasvlakte, one of the biggest harbours in the world, into a sustainable, green company.