Captain Kidd: A True Story of Treasure and Betrayal
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The New Swashbuckling Biography and Breakneck Adventure of War, Romance, Politics, and Betrayal by Bestselling, Award-Winning American History Author Samuel Marquis
Captain William Kidd stands as one of the most notorious “pirate” outlaws ever, but his notorious legend is tainted by a bed of lies. Captain Kidd has captivated imaginations for over three hundred years and inspired many stories about pirates, but was he really a criminal? Just how many ships did he plunder, how many men did he force to walk the plank, and how many throats did he slit? Or is the truth more inconvenient, that he was a buccaneer’s worst nightmare, a revered pirate hunter turned fall guy for scheming politicians?
In Captain Kidd, his ninth-great-grandson, writer Samuel Marquis, reveals the real story. Kidd was an English-American privateer and leading New York husband and father, dubbed “trusty and well-beloved” by the King of England himself and described by historians as a “worthy, honest-hearted, steadfast, much-enduring sailor” who was the “victim of a deliberate travesty of justice.” With honors far more esteemed than the menacing Blackbeard or any other sea rover at the turn of the seventeenth century, how can Kidd be considered both gentleman and pirate, both hero and villain?
Marquis’ biography clears the foggy haze of five centuries of legend and British propaganda to illuminate the seafaring adventurer and civic leader. He scrupulously recreates Kidd’s perilous world of explosive naval warfare, the daring integrity he exemplified as a pirate hunter, and the political scandal that entangled Kidd in British-American history, rocking the New World and the Old and threatening England’s valuable trade with India.
Captain Kidd is both thrilling and tragic. Behind the legend is a real man woven into the tapestry of early America, rendering him a unique colonial hero and scapegoat, whose life story was fascinating, exciting, bizarre, and heartrending.
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#1 DENVER POST BESTSELLING AUTHOR AND WINNER OF NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS: Kirkus and Foreword Reviews’ Book of the Year, American Book Fest, USA Best Book, Readers’ Favorite, IPPY, National Indie Excellence, Beverly Hills, Next Generation Indie, and Colorado Book Awards
“Samuel Marquis grabs my attention right from the beginning and never lets go.”
Gov. Roy R. Romer, 39th Governor of Colorado
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James Patterson, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author
“In his novels Blind Thrust and Cluster of Lies, Samuel Marquis vividly combines the excitement of the best modern techno-thrillers.”
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