The Last Confession Of Alexander Pearce

In 1822, eight men escape from the most isolated and brutal prison on earth, Sarah Island in Van Diemen’s Land. Only one man survives and his tale of betrayal, murder and cannibalism shocks the British establishment to the core. His story is the last confession of Alexander Pearce.
The Last Confession of Alexander Pearce follows the final days of Irish convict Alexander Pearce’s life as he awaits execution. The year is 1824 and the British penal colony of Van Diemen’s Land is little more than a living hell. Chained to a wall in the darkness of a cell under Hobart Gaol, Pearce is visited by Father Conolly, the parish priest of the fledgling colony and a fellow Irishman. The Last Confession Of Alexander Pearce will draw a visceral and compelling picture of a hell on earth and tell how one man endured the unimaginable by doing the unthinkable.