On August 26, 1883, on the island of Krakatoa (or Krakatau, in the native language), began the most catastrophic volcanic eruption witnessed by modern man. At the end of the cataclysm -- a process of eruptions and explosions which took 22 hours to reach its end -- the island in its original configuration disappeared, leaving in its wake a toll of more than 37,000 people dead. The final explosion, on the morning of August 27th, imploded the island, throwing tons of debris, lava and ash to a height of approximately 27 km; the sound of the explosion was heard on Rodriguez Island, 4,776 kilometers away, near Africa, and in Perth, Australia; it is believed that this was the most intense bang heard on the planet, and it reverberated in its atmosphere for nine days. The millions of tons of dust thrown into the atmosphere decreased the temperature around the globe around 0.5 degrees C, and it caused spectacular sunsets. Rafts of pumice stones, spewed by the eruption, human skulls, and bones of victims have even reached the southwest coast of Africa. The old crater had a diameter of approximately 16 km, and the mountains of the island reached up to two thousand feet. After the eruption, there was only a lake. Tsunamis caused by these explosions rocked the farthest places on Earth, like the west coast of the United States, South America and even the Channel. Near the site of the eruption, the waves reached over forty meters high, devastating more than 165 villages along their way. The majority of victims were killed by these monstrous waves and not by the eruption itself. This is the scenario detective Bentley will have to face during his visit to Batavia, seeking clues to a murder in company of Claire, a young woman running from a brothel to which she was sold as a child by her own father. During the investigation, they will meet with the fight between Adam White, an English millionaire trying to apply a blow to destroy Roger Leinster and his trading company. Although the characters described here are fictional, the situations experienced by them relating to the disaster have been drawn from testimonies of survivors.

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