Robert Mayfair grew up in the throes of the Great Depression. After the bank sold the farm in Virginia, the family moved to live with relatives in the Northern Territory of Australia to seek a new beginning. Enter Victor Blood, a creature of guile and intrigue. When Robert's father loses the deed to their new land to Blood over a game of chance, Robert finds himself on the move again, to the tiny island of Pulao Menara in the wilds of the Dutch East...