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{EBOOK} The Last Pirate of New York: A Ghost Ship, a Killer, and the Birth of a
Gangster Nation

{EBOOK} The Last Pirate of New York: A Ghost Ship, a Killer, and the Birth of a Gangster Nation
{EBOOK} The Last
Pirate of New York: A
Ghost Ship, a Killer,
and the Birth of a
Gangster Nation
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Amazon.com In The Last Pirate of New York, author Rich Cohen takes readers on a narrative
nonfiction adventure back to the New York underworld of the mid-1800s. Drawing on archival
materials and including newspaper accounts of the day, Cohen introduces us to the last man
hanged as a pirate in this fair city on Friday the 13th, 1860: a handsome, charismatic thief and
killer called Albert Hicks. Hicks roamed the ports and dives of the day, working for a time with a
sidekick named Tom Stone, “Sundance to Hicksâ€s Butch,― but by 1860 Hicks was once
again working alone. Hicksâ€s final crime was the brutal murder of three men aboard an oyster
sloop; he killed them, stole their money and valuables, then attempted to sink the ship. The ghost
ship was discovered with frightening evidence of the bloody crime, and the search for the killer
began. Cohen recounts not only this heinous crime, but the life of a man who in a strange way
embodied the soul of America at the time, “courageous yet grotesque.― Hicks gave a
confession in order to supply his soon-to-be widow with funds after his death, and thousands
flocked to his hanging. Cohenâ€s remarkable tale is a fascinating window on an early
underworld legend in a city that made a star out of a killer. —Seira Wilson, Amazon Book Review
“Rich Cohenâ€s The Last Pirate of New York is a compulsively readable nonfiction tale of
mystery and murder. He captures the cityâ€s teeming waterfront of the mid-1800s, crawling with
every conceivable Dickensian degenerate and then some, with brilliance. He is one of the finest
storytellers there is, and The Last Pirate of New York takes its place alongside Erik Larsonâ€s
The Devil in the White City and Nathaniel Philbrickâ€s In the Heart of the Sea. Pick it up; you
wonâ€t put it down.―—Buzz Bissinger, author of Friday Night Lights “The Last Pirate
of New York is an absolutely incredible true story. From the opening scene of a blood-drenched
ship drifting in the fog, severed fingers lying on deck, to the evocative depictions of the New York
waterfront teeming with murderers, mountebanks, and crooks, this is not a book for the faint of
heart. Rich Cohenâ€s research is masterful, and he brings alive nineteenth-century New York in
raucous and fascinating detail. This is history at its best, full of drama, crime, dogged detectives,
curious characters, smoky taverns, and dark byways. I highly recommend this remarkable book.―
—Douglas Preston, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Lost City of the
Monkey God “The Last Pirate of New York is a riveting tale of Gotham Cityâ€s first
gangster and most notorious serial killer. Rich Cohen, a superb writer and brilliant storyteller,
delivers a chilling true-crime narrative—from murders to manhunt, courtroom to gallows. This
book takes you to the darkest places of the human soul, and will keep you up all night once you

start it.―—Linda Fairstein, author of the