The Company. The Story Of A Murderer

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: As New
Jacket Condition: As New
Publisher: Picador
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 2000
Edition: Reprint

Description: 367 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in As new condition throughout. This Is Based On A True Story Of A Dutch East India Company Flagship, The Batavia, Which Foundered Off The Coast Of Western Australia In 1629.

Publishers Description: A murderous madmen leads a shipload of innocents to hell and back. I, Jeronimus, am a man of phials, a measurer of powders on bronze scales, a potion brewer, an opium and arsenic merchant. The primped and perfumed Amsterdam burghers came to me in droves requiring cures for fevers, love balms, the miscarriage of a bastard child and, of course, poisons. Ah, poisons... THE COMPANY is based on the true story of a Dutch East India 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 Cornelisz in control, however, an extraordinary reign of terror begins, leaving those who survived wishing they had gone down with the ship.

ISBN: 033048978x