Stories where
history refuses
to stay buried.

A life lived
beyond the page.

Alfred Balm is an author, adventurer, businessman and art historian whose novels are shaped by a remarkably varied life.

Dutch-born and raised amid the lasting realities of Nazi-occupied Holland, Alfred developed an enduring fascination with the people, choices and hidden stories behind major historical events. After building a multinational business conglomerate, he returned to two of his deepest interests and earned master's degrees in Art History and Classical Studies.

That combination of personal memory, international experience and scholarly knowledge gives his fiction its distinctive character. Real events and historic figures become the foundations for stories of stolen masterpieces, political deception, wartime courage, conspiracy and adventure—told with the eye of a traveller and the insight of someone who understands both art and ambition.

“History provides the truth. Imagination reveals what might have happened between the lines.”