Is a Belgian writer known for probing books set in a wide range of   historically important moments and figures.  
Johan Op de Beeck is a well-known face on Dutch-language television in Belgium and has had a distinguished career in media and journalism. He was previously a news anchor for VRT, a documentary filmmaker, director of the Canvas channel, presenter and interviewer on various talk shows, and editor-in-chief of various national and international media outlets such as Euronews. He has directed more than twenty major international documentaries, such as “Jew Transport XX,” “Atlantik Wall,” “Masters of the Game,” and “Masters of Beauty,” in co-production with ARTE, VRT, EO, AVRO, TROS, VERONICA, BBC, NDR, and FR2, among others. A true television pioneer, he launched the regional news channel TV Limburg and the business channel Canal Z.
Today, he is the author of a series of non-fiction books and historical thrillers that feature prominently on bestseller lists in Belgium and the Netherlands.

‘I particularly appreciated the appropriate nuance, the surprising insight into the motives of the king and society as a whole, not to mention your delightful narrative style. I thoroughly enjoyed it, thank you!’

‘Your wonderful stories appealed to me so much that I wanted to delve deeper, read the books in one sitting and even took a trip to Paris to visit all the important places there. I would like to thank you very much for igniting this flame.’

‘Anyone who wants to judge the present must have sufficient knowledge of the past,’ is Johan’s credo. His love of history is innate. He has a particular fondness for the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and the era of Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) – a crucial period in modern European history, the age of the Enlightenment, the French Revolution and the birth of the Belgian nation.