The Pirate

Bloodlands collection

By: Harold Schechter

Narrated by: Steven Weber

In 1860, a sloop drifted into New York Harbor. Not a soul on board - just blood from cabin to deck. Looted coins led to Bowery thug Albert Hicks, the ax slayer who turned his shipmates into chum.

His crimes were absolutely fiendish. His execution was pure ballyhoo. It drew nearly ten thousand bloodthirsty sightseers to the city - including the enterprising showman P. T. Barnum. Refreshments were served as the most notorious and unrepentant mass murderer of the era made history as one of America’s first celebrity killers.

The Pirate is part of Bloodlands, a chilling collection of short addictive historical narratives from bestselling true-crime master Harold Schechter. Spanning a century in our nation’s murderous past, Schechter resurrects nearly forgotten tales of madmen and thrill-killers that dominated the most sensational headlines of their day.

©2018 Harold Schechter (P)2018 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.

Sew K.

Fell asleep towards the end, again & again...
Well, it was free now that's a change, Amazon...

Good

A nice, interesting and quick read that gets right down to brass tacks but in a captivating way.

Great short story to be listened on a comute

There should be more short stories available for commuters to listen back and forth trips

it was a great listen.

I liked the narrator, it was an I testing story. I'll listen to it again I'm sure.

The last pirate

Bloodlands collection – 6 books The Pirate, Little Slaughterhouse on the Prairie, Brick Slayer, Panic, Pied Piper, Rampage

Crime stories, whether in movies, TV or books always reflect the morality and mortality of humans – as cautionary tales to warn us…me especially. The bigger the human flaws or outsized characters; the villain(s) or defenseless victim(s), the press (broadsheet & tabloid), psychiatrists, police, and/or lawyers the more I gawk...

Note: all the ebooks were tricked out with Kindle in motion special effects. Bumped up the ante to the sensationalism...can’t tell if that’s a shot at the press or not…

***The Pirate – 1860’s murder by Albert Hicks who has been swallowed up by the passage of time, tho was a media circus at the time. Noteworthy was an odd tie-in with PT Barnum (which really isn’t that odd today) & the fact Hicks was the last American hung for piracy.