Captain Kidd: A True Story of Treasure and Betrayal (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781635769685)

Samuel Marquis is the ninth great-grandson of legendary privateer Captain William Kidd, and is the #1 Denver Post bestselling and award-winning author of Blackbeard: The Birth of America among eleven other American nonfiction-histories, historical novels, and suspense books, covering primarily the period from colonial America through WWII.

Marquis works by day as a VP-Principal Hydrogeologist with an environmental consulting firm. He lives in Louisville, Colorado, with his wife and three children.