The Applicant

How should we approach our own impending mortality? Accept it passively? Bow to fate ́s steadfast resolve, magnanimously and without regrets? For Albert, an international businessman and traveller of a certain vintage, who wishes to be spared the infirmities and indignities of old age, there is another way, a means of turning the tables, of playing destiny y at its own game. Enter the beautiful Javanese sophisticate, Devi, the ́Applicant ́ in Albert ́s cunning contract with his Maker. Her task, should she accept it, is to terminate Albert ́s 70 plus years on planet earth swiftly, professionally and when he least expects it. A high octane cat and mouse game ensues, pursuer and pursued interlocked in a complex psychological battle of wits and wavering resolve. As Albert ́s friend and cerebral sparring partner, Casey, begins to piece together the puzzle and is drawn into the fray, the stakes rise once more, and an intricate triangle of deceit, betrayal, love and compassion is played out with devastating results. Indebted to Albert Camus ́ The Fall, and set in Amsterdam ́s cosmopolitan café culture, The Applicant resonates with existential yearning and moral ambiguity, creating a taut psychological thriller with proving philosophical insight. When inveterate traveller and international businessman Albert stumbles across a Javanese goddess, Devi, in the tearooms of the American hotel in Amsterdam, the seeds are sown for a deadly pact. Facing the consequences of his impending mortality, Albert decides to sidestep fate and commissions his own murder.