Road

While for the umpteenth time in history the Middle East is on fire and more and more refugees from besieged Syria and Iraq are trying to reach the rich West, a real crisis atmosphere prevails in the asylum seekers' centres of the Low Countries. The centres are overcrowded and an increasing number of residents are protesting against the influx of asylum seekers. When the body of an Afghan man is found in a waste container in the asylum seekers' centre in Sint-Truiden in Limburg, it is widely reported in the press. It is a job that is assigned to commissioner Kareem Zeiz, who is himself of half Tunisian descent. Zeiz reluctantly begins the investigation and is initially left alone. Until he discovers inexplicable
disappearances of rejected asylum seekers, a discovery that seems to lead to a case that transcends this one murder. Why, for example, is it mainly female asylum seekers between the ages of eighteen and twenty who are never granted asylum? And where do they disappear to in such large numbers after their rejection? At a certain point, Zeiz gets the feeling that he is increasingly being
dark forces above him are thwarted. While his superiors decide one by one that the file must be closed, Zeiz stubbornly continues his investigation. Once again he ventures to the boundaries of what is acceptable for a police officer. In the hope that justice will once again prevail...
The rebellious detective Kareem Zeiz previously played the lead role in the novels The
mayonnaise murders and Operation Monstrance. With Weg, Dewit adds a new
and a masterful chapter in Zeiz's not without controversy.