{"product_id":"captain-kidd-a-true-story-of-treasure-and-betrayal","title":"Captain Kidd: A True Story of Treasure and Betrayal","description":"2025 Readers' Favorite Book Awards Gold Medal-winner\n\n2025 American Book Fest Best Book Award Finalist\n\nA breakneck adventure of war, romance, and politics in the golden age of piracy.\n\nCaptain William Kidd stands as one of the most notorious “pirate” outlaws ever, but his legend is tainted by a bed of lies. Having captivated imaginations for more than three hundred years and inspired many stories about pirates, troubling questions remain. Was he really a criminal or is the truth more inconvenient: that he was a buccaneer’s worst nightmare, a revered pirate hunter turned fall guy for scheming politicians?\n\nIn Captain Kidd, his ninth-great-grandson, bestselling author Samuel Marquis, reveals the real story. Kidd was an English American privateer and leading New York husband and father. The King of England himself dubbed Kidd “trusty and well-beloved,” and some historians describe him 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?\n\nMarquis’ biography recreates Kidd’s perilous world of explosive naval warfare and the daring integrity he exemplified as a pirate hunter, as well as 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.\n\nCaptain 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.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 163576968X\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.163576968X.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Marquis, Samuel\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Gently used with minimal wear on the corners and cover. A few pages may contain light highlighting or writing, but the text remains fully legible. Dust jacket may be missing, and supplemental materials like CDs or codes may not be included. May be ex-library with library markings. Ships promptly!  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41491421069370,"sku":"DBV.163576968X.G","price":14.01,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/163576968X-0.jpg?v=1782581647","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/captain-kidd-a-true-story-of-treasure-and-betrayal","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}