Charles den Tex

Charles den Tex was born in Camberwell (Australia) in 1952 and moved to the Netherlands in 1958. He studied photography and film in London.
In 1980, he established himself in Amsterdam as a copywriter and later as communication and management consultant. He has published eleven thrillers and he is a six time nominee for the annual Crime Fiction Award in the Netherlands, The Golden Noose (De Gouden Strop). He won the award three times already. In 2002 with his fifth thriller, Chance in Hell, in 2006 with The Power of Mr Miller, his eighth thriller, and again in 2008 with its successor Cell. Cell was also longlisted for the 2009 Libris Literature Prize.
The Power of Mr Miller will be broadcasted on Dutch national television November 7th 2010. A cinema version of Cell is planned for 2011.
His new novel, Password, was published in May 2010. Also he is the author of the gift crime novella for June – Month of the Crime Novel (Juni – Maand van het spannende boek). The print run of this novella, titled Onmacht, will be approximately 800.000 copies.

Charles den Tex pioneered his own brand of ‘corporate thrillers’, combining inside knowledge of how large and small companies operate, with a natural story telling ease and clever, realistic plots. The thrill is derived from the way people fight for their businesses or for their position within the company. They are not only in it for the money – although sums involved are sometimes quite staggering – it is their interest in their work and their loved ones that makes people fight and confront each other. In the process, they cross the thin line between honesty and self-interest.

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