The Malibu Letter

By Dr. Cornelis van Houte

A courier envelope arrives at a rented house above a beach in Malibu. Twelve pages. Ten million euros in damages. For a novel.

Dr. Cornelis Frost is sixty-four, disbarred, and knows exactly what the letter is - because he spent thirty years building the legal instruments that make it possible. It is not designed to win in court. It is designed to cost everything before court ever happens: frozen accounts, professional exposure, the slow dismantling of a life by procedure.

The Malibu Letter follows Frost and his partner Amara Diallo - a Guinean-French economist who reads the letter before he does, and understands it faster - as they move from a California beach house to Brussels courtrooms to Los Angeles litigation, assembling the one defense the corporation did not anticipate: a California anti-SLAPP counterattack, backed by forty-six pages of meticulous documentation and a cardiologist willing to testify that sustained legal threat is documented medicine, not metaphor.

Written by a former investment treaty lawyer who has sat on both sides of the desk, The Malibu Letter is a novel about power, silence, and what it costs to refuse both. The legal mechanisms are real. The medical literature is real. The pattern is real.

The fiction is everything else.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GWHLGPTB
• ISBN13: 9798255372379
• Release Date: April 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"