After Django Mathijsen had won the Unleash Award, a prestigious Dutch story award, twice in a row, a publisher asked him to write this novel. It was published in Dutch in March 2010 and is based on the short story for which Django won his second Unleash Award. This science fiction techno-thriller is set around the year 2040. A programmer of robotic cars loses everything when he is accused of terrorism. Hunted by the police, Mando hides with the real terrorists and discovers a conspiracy for mass murder. Who are behind it, what are their motives and what do the Robot Wars championship and a kidnapped combat robot have to do with it? A race against the clock begins. Can Mando stop the terrorists?
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Dutchman Django Mathijsen is the son of professional musicians. He worked as a jazz-organist as a teenager and while studying engineering at the Eindhoven University of Technology, where he graduated in 1993.
He was a technical consultant on the award winning British TV-programs Robot Wars and TechnoGames. And, combining music and technology, he wrote a book about the Hammond-organ, which was serialized in a Dutch music magazine. As a science journalist and editor he's subsequently written over three hundred articles in English and Dutch magazines.
He now concentrates mainly on composing music and writing fiction. He has won numerous awards for his short stories which have appeared in all current Dutch science fiction, fantasy and horror magazines and in various Dutch anthologies. His first novel (the science fiction techno-thriller "Mando Vidé en het Robotbevrijdingsfront") was published in the Netherlands in March 2010 by the publishing house Books of Fantasy. His second novel ("Codenaam Hadsadah") was co-written in 2010 with Anaïd Haen (also an award winning Dutch writer) and is the first thriller about WikiLeaks.