Eddie Rooster Barbosa wielded the sceptre over Eversteijn’s underworld, alongside his brother Roy Barbosa with whom he was inseparable. When Eddie died a gruesome and painful death, after being lured into a trap by the breathtaking but vile Southern belle he fell in love with, according to many, his brother Roy’s ability to love faded, turning him into the merciless kingpin of today.

Although small, Circus Assassi managed to gather some of the world’s most famous artists including De Zwaluw, who’s reputation for the ancient art of peristalsis is as legendary among the average Joes as it is to the kings and queens she performed before…

The Sheriff a.k.a. One-Eye McDart a.k.a. The Collector quickly climbed the army ranks in the Great War because of his complete lack of fear in combat and strategic brilliance. After being caught red-handed hiding contraband in a secret compartment of his infamous grey biplane, he was interrogated and dishonourably discharged.

Something has changed in Inspector Bal’s appearance over the years since he graduated cum laude as Eversteijn’s police academy’s prodigy. His once proud boyish smile vanished, traded for a cynical smirk now hidden under the hairy mark of manhood; the somewhat naïve sparkle in his eyes, excited about a future as crime fighter in Eversteijn, replaced by the stare of a man who has seen too much…

Wearing personalities like others would wear a dress or suit, Fantasmus moves like a fish in water through all layers of Eversteijn’s society, as much at ease in its bloated underbelly as in the upper layers, wherever money tells its tales of greed.

Blessed with iron fists and a raw talent for the noble art, Tirpitz knows his only way up is by putting others down by knockout. Unfortunately, most fights in town are far from fair, bare-knuckled, with the canvas being the unforgiving cobblestones of the docks owned by the Speckkooper family.