Pirate in the Closet

Shane Egan doesn’t think any lives matter. Why should he? He grew up in sinister South Boston. This explains why he has burglarized, tortured, or killed dozens.

 

That’s what a Boston prosecutor wants you to think.

 

Omitted from Shane’s voluminous police file are eyewitness interviews. The interviews suggest the murder victims terrorized him. Some witnesses believe a man with an unpleasant looking pirate patch committed the crimes. The prosecutor doesn’t care.

 

In Boston, Shane is indicted for first-degree murder. He flees and tries to hide out as a priest in a San Francisco Catholic Church. Is Shane a sinister pirate who terrorizes the innocent or a guiltless decoy for powerful unseen forces?


Ryan is a non-residential fellow of Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society. His articles or interviews about emerging tech issues like “deep fakes” have appeared in El Pais, Digital Trends, and Cognitive Times. This book is another in a series of satirical crime thrillers sprinkled with romance. The first was an Amazon top 3 new hot comedy release. The series tells the story of a fictional syndicate of crime families. They stealthy gain intel from Nazis SS during WWII, among other niceties.