Störtebeker - From Sailor's Yarns to the Hangman's Noose

By Michael Lappenbusch

Klaus St rtebeker is a captain against his will-too stubborn to sink, too dangerous to ignore.
Aboard the *Bunte Kuh*, a swaying wreck held together by too many nails and too little mercy, his crew hunts the Hanse's merchant ships.

Loot means: living one day longer.
And yet something else devours faster than hunger: distrust.
A one-eyed man sows poison, Joris snaps at anyone who looks too sober-and a nameless boy learns that at sea you don't become "good," only "useful."

This book isn't a romantic pirate dream, but a filthy, loud chunk of ocean:
rum in the beard, blood on the planks, and a crew that only sticks together because otherwise it falls apart.

Between grappling hooks, dives, and brothels, it all spirals into a maelstrom of power, fear, and betrayal.
St rtebeker holds the mutiny together with steel and madness until even friendship feels like a badly tied knot.
And while somewhere a small box with seals and a letter is waiting, the gallows is already rising on the horizon.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GQQ3D7NT
• ISBN13: 9798250315685
• Release Date: March 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"