East India by Colin Falconer

She was the greatest ship ever to sail to the East Indies ...

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In any other circumstance but shipwreck, rape and murder, a man like Michiel van Texel would never have met a fine lady such as Cornelia Noorstrandt. He was just a soldier, a sergeant in the Dutch East India company’s army, on his way from Amsterdam to the Indies to fight the Mataram. Such a woman was far above the likes of him. But both their destinies intertwine far away from Holland, on some god-forsaken islands near the Great Southland. When their great ship, the Utrecht, founders far from home, surviving the Houtman Rocks is the least of their worries. As they battle to survive and the bravest and the best reveal themselves for what they are, Cornelia’s only hope is a mercenary in a torn coat who shows her that a man is more than just manners and money. He makes her one promise: ‘Even if God forsakes you, I will find you.’ But can he keep it? Described by one critic as ‘Jack and Rose in the seventeenth century’, East India will keep you wondering until the final page.

Transcript of East India by Colin Falconer

She was the greatest ship ever to sail to the East Indies ...

But not every passenger is

eager to arrive…

...and only a few of those who leave Holland will ever reach Batavia. !

‘I can’t go back to him, Michiel. I know what it’s like to be alive now.

I can’t go back to feeling dead again.’

Step on board… Fall in love…

Step off the world.

As they battle to survive and the bravest and the best reveal themselves for what they really are, Cornelia’s only hope is a mercenary in a torn coat who shows her that a man is more than just manners and money. !

‘I am here at the end of the world in a place where even God does not go.’

‘Cornelia, even if God forsakes you, I will still find you. I

promise you.’

Never throw your life away

again.

Meet Colin !Colin Falconer has published over 40 books in the last 26 years. HAREM was an enormous bestseller in Germany, selling over 200,000 copies. AZTEC stayed on the bestseller lists in Mexico for four months. He is a bestseller in Eastern Europe and his work has sold into translation in 23 countries. He did not write for over five years but returned to publishing in 2010 with the release of SILK ROAD and STIGMATA the following year. ISABELLA was published in 2013. NAKED IN HAVANA and NAKED IN LA, the first two books in a trilogy set in the sixties, was published in November. He likens his fiction most closely to Ken Follett - books with romance and high adventure, drawn from many periods of history. www.coolgus.com

www.colinfalconer.org !