Eric Aitken
ASIN: B00NJN0WGM
Publisher: Eramont
Pages: 330
This is a story about adventure, intrigue, and faith. Robert is a young missionary who is stranded in a seedy port in the East Indies just before 1900. There he faces pirates, unscrupulous and despotic local authorities, crooked European expatriates, conspiracy, and the temptations of the flesh. He fights snake infested jungles, shark infested seas, and an island of dragon-like monsters. Most of all he is tried by the conduct and actions of an older missionary who has compromised his beliefs and sullied his faith. But Robert also encounters a fragilely beautiful girl with whom he falls deeply in love in a bittersweet and doomed romance. Years earlier, when his parents died he was raised by his Aunt, a good and industrious older lady. She was deeply religious and very much admired her brother and his wife who were missionaries. So she raised Robert to have the singular ambition of ...