AVON
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Contents
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
PROLOGUE: Amsterdam, red light district, 16â17 January
CHAPTER 1: Broadmoor Psychiatric Hospital, UK, 17 January
CHAPTER 2: Amsterdam, the set of a porn film, then, Sloterdijkermeer allotments, later
CHAPTER 3: Soho, London, later
CHAPTER 4: Amsterdam, mortuary, later
CHAPTER 5: Soho, London, later
CHAPTER 6: Amsterdam, mortuary, later
CHAPTER 7: Amsterdam, private medical surgery, much later
CHAPTER 8: Amsterdam, police headquarters, 18 January
CHAPTER 9: Soho, London, Skin Flicks Media Group, later
CHAPTER 10: Amsterdam, Norderkerk, later, then, van den Bergenâs apartment
CHAPTER 11: South East London, very late
CHAPTER 12: Manhattan, New York, 1981
CHAPTER 13: Amsterdam, police headquarters, then, a building site, 19 January
CHAPTER 14: Amsterdam, police headquarters, later
CHAPTER 15: Amsterdam, Valeriusstraat building site, later
CHAPTER 16: Stansted Express, East London, later
CHAPTER 17: Amsterdam, Valeriusstraat building site, later
CHAPTER 18: Cambridge, St Johnâs College, later
CHAPTER 19: Amsterdam, police headquarters, later
CHAPTER 20: Amsterdam, 20 January
CHAPTER 21: Cambridge, Mill Road, later
CHAPTER 22: Amsterdam, police headquarters, later
CHAPTER 23: Broadmoor Psychiatric Hospital, later
CHAPTER 24: Amsterdam, police headquarters, later
CHAPTER 25: Broadmoor Psychiatric Hospital, later
CHAPTER 26: Amsterdam, police headquarters, later
CHAPTER 27: Amsterdam, mortuary, 21 January
CHAPTER 28: Amsterdam, red light district, later
CHAPTER 29: Amsterdam, van den Bergenâs car, later
CHAPTER 30: Amsterdam, later
CHAPTER 31: Amsterdam, mortuary, later
CHAPTER 32: Amsterdam, Ruud Ahlersâ apartment, later
CHAPTER 33: Amsterdam, van den Bergenâs car, then Ahlersâ apartment, moments later
CHAPTER 34: London, 1985
CHAPTER 35: Amsterdam, police headquarters, 22 January
CHAPTER 36: South East London, Aunty Sharonâs house, later
CHAPTER 37: Amsterdam, the Quick Bite Café, later
CHAPTER 38: Amsterdam, police headquarters, later
CHAPTER 39: Amsterdam, Ahlersâ private surgery, later
CHAPTER 40: Amsterdam, the Cracked Pot Coffee Shop, red light district, later
CHAPTER 41: Over the North Sea, 23 January
CHAPTER 42: Amsterdam, police headquarters, later
CHAPTER 43: Amsterdam, van den Bergenâs car, en route to Rotterdam, later
CHAPTER 44: Amsterdam, Adâs apartment, later
CHAPTER 45: Rotterdam Port, later
CHAPTER 46: Amsterdam, police headquarters, 24 January
CHAPTER 47: Amsterdam, mortuary, later
CHAPTER 48: Amsterdam, van den Bergenâs apartment, 25 January
CHAPTER 49: Amsterdam, police headquarters, later
CHAPTER 50: Hamburg, Germany, 26 January
CHAPTER 51: Katwijk asylum seekersâ centre, Netherlands, later
CHAPTER 52: Rotterdam, Port Authority, later
CHAPTER 53: Amsterdam, Adâs apartment, later still
CHAPTER 54: Berlin, Germany, 1989
CHAPTER 55: Over the North Sea, then, Ramsgate, England, 27 January
CHAPTER 56: Soho, London, later
CHAPTER 57: Ramsgate, later
CHAPTER 58: Soho, London, later
CHAPTER 59: Somewhere in Kent, an industrial estate, later
CHAPTER 60: Ramsgate, seafront B&B, 28 January
CHAPTER 61: Somewhere in Kent, a field, later
CHAPTER 62: Kent, on a train, then Amsterdam, mortuary, later
CHAPTER 63: South East London, later
CHAPTER 64: Amsterdam, police headquarters holding cell, later
CHAPTER 65: Ashford, Kent, later
CHAPTER 66: Cambodia, 1992
CHAPTER 67: Amsterdam, mortuary, 29 January
CHAPTER 68: South East London, mortuary, later
CHAPTER 69: Amsterdam, later
CHAPTER 70: Amsterdam, Nieuw West area, then, police headquarters, later
CHAPTER 71: Amsterdam, Adâs apartment, then NOS TV studios, then police headquarters, 30 January
CHAPTER 72: Amsterdam, police headquarters, later