The King of Pirates. The Amazing Story of Henry Avery and the Birth of the Golden Age of Piracy

The amazing story of the successful pirate Henry Avery, who carried out the largest robbery in the world — he seized the ship "Ganj-i-Sawai" with treasures and the entourage of the Emperor of the Great Mughals. The attack provoked an international scandal, and Avery became the first criminal to be placed on the worldwide wanted list. People created legends about him and celebrated him in ballads as the "Robin Hood of the seas." Rumors circulated that he became an African king, married the captured granddaughter of the emperor, squandered his loot, and died in poverty in his native Devon.
The mystery of Henry Avery's disappearance remained unresolved for more than three centuries. Suddenly, the authors of the book found an encrypted letter in the archives. Based on this document, they proposed their version of the further life of the "king of pirates," connecting him with other iconic figures of the early 18th century — the writer and secret agent Daniel Defoe, King William III and Queen Anne, and Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Tenison — the fiercest enemy of Catholic France.