The Company Author:Arabella Edge The Company is based on the true story of a Dutch East India Company flagship, the Batavia, which foundered off the coast of western Australia in 1629. Jeronimus Cornelisz, a thirty-year-old apothecary with murder, mutiny, rape, and torture on his mind, assumes command of the survivors, who all thought they were lucky to be alive. With Corneli... more »sz in control, however, and extraordinary reign of terror begins, leaving those who survived wishing they had gone down with the ship.
Soaked with the blood of the innocent and the wicked, The Company plunges, with the weight of history, deep into the heart of darkness.« less