For Fans of True-Life Pirate Stories"Only someone who has lived in the shadows chasing faded pirates for an age, and is blessed with creativity, can pull off a book of this high caliber." —Wreck Watch MagazineMaritime Media Mountbatten Literary Award Nominee2021 International Book Awards finalist in History: General#1 Bestseller in Caribbean & West Indies, Central America, and GlobalizationPirates scholar, Rebecca Simon, PhD, explains how the global manhunt for Captain Kidd turned pirates into the romantic antiheroes we love today.Crime and punishment. During his life and after his death, Captain William Kidd’s name was well known in England and the American coloniesHe was infamous for the crime for which he was hanged, piracy. Rebecca Simon dives into the details of the two-year manhunt for Captain Kidd. Captain Kidd was hanged in 1701, followed by a massive British-led hunt for all pirates during a period known as the Golden Age of Piracy.Ironically, public executions only increased