Slaves to Fortune

Two Belgian exiles, both called Tony Hanssen, are on the run from their former lives on different continents. In Buenos Aires one of the Tony Hanssens, a former cruise director, is playing a dangerous game as a toy boy to the elderly wife of a wealthy Chinese businessman. In South Africa a totally different Tony Hanssen, a computer specialist running from a crashed merchant bank, breaks into a game reserve with a precision rifle and war ammunition. Amid the chaos of global capitalism, lawlessness, and disintegrating lives, a chance meeting between the two Hanssens gives each the chance to redeem himself by betraying the other.

'I wanted to write a novel which struck a balance between Albert Camus and Quentin Tarantino. Between classic European existentialism and a typical American-thriller exploitation - between merciless analysis and merciless fun.' - Tom Lanoye

'An intoxicating novel: relevant, encompassing the entire globe, satirical, and fast-paced - Slaves to Fortune demonstrates with dizzying speed that we Westerners are depressingly interchangeable.' - De Volkskrant