Winner Kirkus Reviews Book of the Year Awards
Winner Beverly Hills Book Awards
Award-Winning Finalist American Book Fest Best Book Awards
Blackbeard: The Birth of America
is the true story of
Edward Thache
--former British Navy seaman and notorious privateer-turned-pirate, who lorded over the Atlantic seaboard and Caribbean during the
Golden Age of Piracy
. A Robin-Hood-like American patriot and the most famous freebooter of all time,
Blackbeard
was illegally hunted down by Virginia
Governor Alexander Spotswood
, the British Crown's man in Williamsburg obsessed with his capture. Based on reliable historical records and the latest research, this adventure tale illuminates the true man behind the myth and his doggedly determined pursuer, revealing a cat-and-mouse game and important historical figure lost to us in a "fog of legend, myth and propaganda" for three hundred years. A folk hero in his own lifetime,
exploded onto the scene during the birth of America and was one of the first
American revolutionaries
in the
War of Independence
against British rule.