The Devil and the Dark Water
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The Devil and the Dark Water
4.99 €
The newest novel by Stuart Turton, author of the international bestseller The Seven Deaths of Evelina Hardcastle, which has been translated into 30 languages and won the prestigious Costa Prize for best debut. If "The Seven Deaths of Evelina Hardcastle" has been called "a puzzling and yet completely organic blend of 'Downton Abbey' and 'Groundhog Day', Agatha Christie and series like 'Quantum Leap'" (Sunday Express), then "The Devil and Dark Water" is "a brilliant cross between Conan Doyle and William Golding" (Val McDermid).
So, welcome to 1634. East India Company galleons carrying nutmeg and black pepper, spices and silks from Batavia to Amsterdam. The journey from the Pacific islands to Europe leads around Africa and takes eight months. Not everyone made it to Amsterdam: fierce storms and fearsome pirates took their toll. And now the "Saardam" is preparing to sail from Batavia. Among the passengers - Governor-General Jan Haan with his family and mistress, the famous "alchemical detective" Samuel Pips, shackled on an unknown charge, his partner Lieutenant Arent Hayes. The omens of fate are ominously shaping up from the start. At the wharf, a leper exclaims: "The cargo of the "Saardam" is marked with the seal of sin, and all who dare to board, awaits a terrible doom," and bursts into bright flames. When the sail is hoisted on the mainmast, everyone sees the charcoal-painted tail-eye on the white canvas, a symbol of the demon known by the name of Old Tom. Although there were seven ships in the convoy that sailed from Batavia, an eighth lantern periodically lights up in the night ocean. And when there is a murder on board, instead of Sam Sparrow, a prisoner in his cell, the detective is forced to take over from Arent, nicknamed Bear....
So, welcome to 1634. East India Company galleons carrying nutmeg and black pepper, spices and silks from Batavia to Amsterdam. The journey from the Pacific islands to Europe leads around Africa and takes eight months. Not everyone made it to Amsterdam: fierce storms and fearsome pirates took their toll. And now the "Saardam" is preparing to sail from Batavia. Among the passengers - Governor-General Jan Haan with his family and mistress, the famous "alchemical detective" Samuel Pips, shackled on an unknown charge, his partner Lieutenant Arent Hayes. The omens of fate are ominously shaping up from the start. At the wharf, a leper exclaims: "The cargo of the "Saardam" is marked with the seal of sin, and all who dare to board, awaits a terrible doom," and bursts into bright flames. When the sail is hoisted on the mainmast, everyone sees the charcoal-painted tail-eye on the white canvas, a symbol of the demon known by the name of Old Tom. Although there were seven ships in the convoy that sailed from Batavia, an eighth lantern periodically lights up in the night ocean. And when there is a murder on board, instead of Sam Sparrow, a prisoner in his cell, the detective is forced to take over from Arent, nicknamed Bear....
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