Persuasion
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Last published Sat, May 14, 2016
The interesting town of Amsterdam holds a secret.
Will Hemingway has the perfect life working as a painter in the city and living with his modest girlfriend, Fairydust Olsson.
However, when he finds a map in his cellar, he begins to realise that things are not quite as they seem in the Hemingway family.
A party leaves Will with some startling questions about his past, and he sets off to grand Amsterdam to find some answers.
At first the people of Amsterdam are lovable and friendly. He is intrigued by the nurse, Chloe Rockatansky. However, after she introduces him to hard liquor, Will slowly finds himself drawn into a web of robbery, fraud and drugs.
Can Will resist the charms of Chloe Rockatansky and uncover the secret of the map before it's too late, or will his demise become yet another Amsterdam legend?
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