Gallows Thief

  • Autor: Bernard Cornwell
  • Narrador: Jonathan Keeble
  • Editora: HarperCollins USA
  • Duração: 11:04:56
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Sinopse

The year is 1820 and England has fought its last victorious battle against the French. Rider Sandman, a hero of Waterloo, has finally returned to London to wed his young bride. But instead of being able to settle down to his fame and glory, he finds himself penniless in a country where unemployment and social unrest are raging high, and where men—innocent or guilty—are hung for the merest of crimes. Thus, when the Home Secretary offers him a job as private investigator—to re-open the case of a death-row candidate accused of murder—Sandman readily accepts, as much for the money as for a chance to see justice being done in a country gone to ruins. Soon, however, he is up to his elbows in grisly a murder plot that keeps thickening as Sandman makes his way through gentleman's clubs and shady taverns, aristocratic mansions and fashionable painters studios, unerringly determined to rescue the innocent young man from the the rope. But someone doesn't want the truth revealed ...

Capítulos

  • 001_GallowsThief_intro

    Duração: 06s
  • 002_GallowsThief_prologue

    Duração: 43min
  • 003_GallowsThief_chapter1

    Duração: 01h08min
  • 004_GallowsThief_chapter2

    Duração: 01h17min
  • 005_GallowsThief_chapter3

    Duração: 01h33s
  • 006_GallowsThief_chapter4

    Duração: 01h16min
  • 007_GallowsThief_chapter5

    Duração: 57min
  • 008_GallowsThief_chapter6

    Duração: 57min
  • 009_GallowsThief_chapter7

    Duração: 50min
  • 010_GallowsThief_chapter8

    Duração: 47min
  • 011_GallowsThief_chapter9

    Duração: 51min
  • 012_GallowsThief_chapter10

    Duração: 01h11min
  • sample-554

    Duração: 01min