The Hanging Judge
Itzehoe in northernmost Germany, in the year 1396. By the time Hinrik vom Diek lifts his head out of a pool of beer, the fateful document has already been signed. The Count and Hinrik’s arch enemy, the powerful merchant Wilham von Cronen, have got him blind-drunk and acquired his toft and croft, ruining him.
Desperate for revenge, the knight sets out for Hamburg, where he ekes out a miserable existence until one day the pirate Captain Stortebeker captures a caravel. Could this be Hinrik’s chance for vengeance? He is sure he has overheard von Cronen divulge the course the ship will be taking to Stortebeker…
Genre: Fiction, Historical Novels
560 pages,
ISBN: 978-3-423-21130-7
First published 2009