When what should have been a simple hit-and-run turns into a murder investigation Journalist
Farah Hafez finds herself pulled into a sinister world where nothing is as it seems. Butterfly
On The Storm is the first utterly compulsive read in the bestselling Dutch thriller series: The
Heartland Trilogy. A young boy is found in woods outside Amsterdam. Broken and bloody he
appears to be the victim of a brutal hit-and-run. When the police at the hospital ask what
happened the one word the boy repeats they don't understand. But journalist Farah Hafez does.
She left Afghanistan as a child and she recognises her native tongue. As the boy is taken into
surgery she finds herself visiting the scene of the crime seeking to discover how a little
Afghan boy came to be so far from home. Instead she comes across a burnt-out car with two
charred bodies inside - a sinister clue to something much darker than a simple road accident.
It is just the start of a journey that will lead her from one twist to another in an intricate
web of crime and corruption that stretches from Amsterdam all the way to Moscow Kabul and
Johannesburg and deep into a past that Farah had sought to leave behind - a past that nearly
killed her.
