Hitman's Choice

Twenty-one-year-old mechanic Hans Vossen understands machines. Every fault leaves evidence. People are harder. When his father offers him control of Vossen Motoren, Hans believes he has finally earned an independent future. The price appears simple: watch Abel Terschuur, a port-safety representative suspected of selling information, and report everything he does. Then Hans discovers the assignment contains a hidden order.
If Abel attempts to expose the people controlling Veldhaven's harbor, surveillance becomes intervention - and intervention ends in death. Refusing should be easy. Walking away is not. The garage, Hans's home, and the life he believed his family had built honestly are entangled with De Kade, a criminal network sustained by respectable businesses, compromised officials, hidden payments, and carefully distributed guilt.
When a stolen ledger threatens to expose them all, an abandoned partner returns to settle a seventeen-year debt and force Hans into the role his father prepared for him. Every ally is concealing something. Every truth places another life at risk. And every attempt to delay the violence leaves someone else carrying its cost. To stop the final contract, Hans must choose between protecting his father, saving the intended victim, and destroying the inheritance that was supposed to become his future.
Hitman's Choice is a tense, morally complex crime thriller about family loyalty, inherited guilt, institutional corruption, and the price of refusing the identity others have chosen for you.