El Batavia

The Batavia adventure combines in one story the birth of the first multinational, the brutality of colonization, the fight between good and evil, a riot, a first encounter between civilizations, love, mud, blood, a dictatorship of court fascist, murder, sexual bondage, nobility, survival, rescue, heroic acts and more. Described by the author as the adult version of The Lord of the Flies combined with Nightmare on Elm Street, the story begins in 1629, when the pride of the Dutch East India Company, the Batavia, begins its journey from Amsterdam to the Indies eastern, with their guts full of the greatest treasure that had left the Netherlands. What many of his crew did not know was that a riot conspiracy was burning inside and that just as the western Australian coast was spotted at the most dangerous time, in the middle of the night and near the reefs, everything it was going to explode. While Commander Francisco Pelsaert must make a controversial decision, Jeronimus Cornelisz, his second, takes control of the 250 survivors on a small, dry island