Amid the evil doings, human decency is largely limited to Sammy's bodyguard, Arent Hayes, a physically imposing specimen with a kind soul and a "poisoned" past, and healer Sara Wessel, abused wife of soulless Governor General Jan Haan, who happens to be Arent's uncle. Ultimately, a monster storm upends the Saardam and destroys two other ships in the fleet.
Soon enough at sea, on a vessel populated by "murderers, cutpurses and malcontents," throats are slit, bodies are stashed, and dark secrets are exposed. Only prisoner Sammy Pipps, an alleged British spy with uncanny powers of deduction, took the threat seriously. After an outbreak of ghastly events aboard the Saardam, a merchant vessel returning from the East Indies to Amsterdam in 1634, fear spreads that an evil spirit is responsible.īefore the ship's departure, a leper issued a stark warning about the "merciless ruin" that awaited it-and then burst into flames.
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