Black Meridian: Piracy & Empire: Where Empire Meets outlaw in the Age of Piracy, History is Written in Blood and Salt

"Epic, exciting, and highly recommended."

— Midwest Book Review

"A detailed, vivid, and often sobering history of life at sea."

— Independent Book Review

In the Wake of Empire, the Black Flag Was Born.

Black Meridian: Piracy & Empire is a sweeping narrative history of piracy, revealing how pirates, privateers, and imperial powers shaped and destroyed one another across four centuries of global conflict. From the fall of Constantinople in 1453 to the end of piracy in the industrial age, Sean Patr...