Includes bibliographical references (pages 266-290) and index.
Contents
Enemies of the human race -- Erring captains : state-sponsored piracy and its aftermath -- "His majesty's pleasure" : Henry Morgan and Jamaica -- Oddsfish! -- The pirate cabal -- King Baldridge and the Red Sea pirates -- Amity, liberty, and Thomas Tew -- Henry Every, "as yet an Englishman's friend" -- Trials and tribulations -- The most hated man in America -- Nemesis -- "Your loving friends" -- The despair of Lord Bellomont -- "That race of wicked men" -- Afterword : pirate patronage in the twenty-first century.