Tom Greer's Blog - Posts Tagged "amsterdam"

I'm off to Amsterdam on Friday for a long weekend. I was there several years ago and I'm staying in the same hotel as before. IN FACT part of "An Expendable Spy" takes place in that very hotel, and if they give me Room 26, that very room.

So, next weekend I'll have the paperback version of my novel with me and I'll be reading about the hotel I'm staying in...in the hotel I'm staying in. In MY novel! The one I wrote!

Has anyone else done anything like this?

Last month a friend and I were in Amsterdam where much of the action in "An Expendable Spy" takes place. While we were there we decided to undertake the "Jack Tate Amsterdam Tour" visiting the various places in that interesting city British Intelligence agent, Jack Tate,visited in his quest to meet up with West German terrorist, Hans-Dieter Schuster.

My companion persuaded me (against my better judgement)to pose with the paperback version of the novel in front of the door to Room 26 (not my actual room)of the hotel where some of the Amsterdam action takes place. Although it wasn't my room, in the novel is WAS Jack Tate's room.

You can imagine the look of bewilderment on the young Chinese couple's faces when they saw me - book in hand - having my photo taken in front of THEIR room!

Anyway, to see more photos from the "Jack Tate Amsterdam Tour" and further description of my time in Amsterdam please nip across to my Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/tomgreerwrit...

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