

He flees from prison in panic and is dishonourably shot on the run.

When he develops a roll of film that should show a photograph of the two of them together, it turns out that the picture is a dud. Worse, he cannot prove that Dorbeck ever existed. Osewoudt cannot prove that he received his assignments from Dorbeck. Having survived all the dangers, at the end of the war Osewoudt is himself taken for a traitor and captured. But the assassinations get out of hand, and when Osewoudt discovers that his wife denounced him to the Germans, he kills her too. When I first set eyes on him I thought: this is the sort of man I should have been.’ĭorbeck gives Osewoudt a series of dangerous assignments: helping British agents and taking out traitors. ‘I had the feeling I was an extension of him, or even part of him. Dorbeck is dark-haired, and his voice deep and masculine.

Henri is blond and beardless, with a high, squeaky voice. Dorbeck is Osewoudt’s spitting image in reverse. During the German occupation of Holland, tobacconist Henri Osewoudt is visited by Dorbeck.
