Character from Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo
A Kerch merchant who hired the Crows to steal jurda parem from the Ice Court — then betrayed them because controlling the drug was worth more than any deal.
Jan Van Eck is the primary antagonist of the Six of Crows duology — a wealthy Kerch merchant who hired Kaz's crew to break into the Ice Court and extract the scientist Bo Yul-Bayur, who created jurda parem. When they succeeded, Van Eck betrayed them — taking Inej hostage and attempting to control the parem formula himself. He disowned his son Wylan for being unable to read and attempted to have him killed rather than let the family shame become public. His villainy is the ordinary kind — greed, pride, and the assumption that wealth makes you untouchable. Kaz proved him wrong.
Wealthy Kerch merchant with the polished exterior of a man who never gets his own hands dirty. Everything about him projects respectability.
Also known as: Van Eck, Jan Van Eck