Peter van Wermeskerken

Peter van Wermeskerken (alias Pete Van Kerk) was born on Sunday, 31 December 1939. After WWII he was diagnosed epilepsis. It took doctors ten years to find medication and treatment he could lead an everyday life with. He finished 1960 the Higher Agricultural School at Utrecht (Holland) and was, in the exam period, co-winner in an essay contest about agricultural cooperation in Europe.

At that moment, he decided to follow in Dad's footsteps as a journalist. After wandering around for five years, he came to Dad's paper at Zeist with the aim of succeeding him. However, in early 1970, he moved to the second largest Dutch newspaper, AD, at Rotterdam. There, he remained until his retirement as a reporter and chief at the economics desk. He ranked the world's top in oil reporting.

In 1988, his first book, "The Years 90," was published. It contained predictions made in interviews with the CEOs of the ten largest Dutch multinationals. It was soon sold out.

His second book was Double Agent (2013). This is about the 3,5 years in which Peter indeed was a double agent for the Dutch secret service, although he had been first approached by the East German Stasi. This book got many four stars and one 5 star review. After his wife Marga had passed away (2014) and remarried Huong from Vietnam, it took him over four years before he found back the joy to write. In only two years came the erotic novel Reed Sailing, a satiric novel (only in Dutch) on Dutch policy for the elderly, and parts 3 and 4 of the children's book Mike & Alex. In Part 1, they initiated activities against humans that caused a severe threat to the animals in the forest. Now Mike and Alex heal a whale from a harpoon in his back.

Meanwhile, Wally offers them a world cruise by whale. On that cruise, they organize a hunt on the whale hunters and a massive cleaning of the Indian Ocean and the Pacific. Reviewers give it 4 and 5 stars for its originality and writing style. The illustrated books are in a bigger font and inlining to enable kids to read them themself. This book is published in Summer 2024.