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Jasper Hanebuth The Bandit: Broken On The Wheel
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerHistorical Fiction
Publisher: Silverback Books
Published: Nov 26 2025
Pages: 584
Weight: 1.70
Height: 1.30 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Jasper Hanebuth The Bandit: Broken On The Wheel
In 1652, three years after the devastating Thirty Years' War, Mayor Johann Veltheim of Hanover faces a crisis: the former Swedish mercenary Jasper Hanebuth has turned to systematic banditry, terrorizing trade routes and murdering travelers. Veltheim launches an obsessive investigation, employing informants, surveillance, and ultimately torture to capture and prosecute the notorious criminal.
Through Veltheim's detailed first-person account, we witness not just a manhunt but a profound moral reckoning. As the mayor uncovers Hanebuth's history-a veteran unable to reintegrate into civilian life after twenty-one years of military service, rejected by society, driven to crime by desperation-he confronts uncomfortable truths about systemic failure and shared culpability.
The narrative culminates in Hanebuth's brutal execution by breaking wheel, meticulously documented according to the *Constitutio Criminalis Carolina*. But Veltheim finds no triumph in this victory. Instead, he grapples with whether he administered justice or merely perpetuated the cycle of violence the war created. His final reflections acknowledge that while individual criminals can be eliminated, the conditions that produce them-veteran abandonment, economic collapse, normalized brutality-remain unaddressed, ensuring the wheel of violence will turn again.
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