Tom Bowling offers a lively history of piracy from ancient times through theRenaissance privateers such as Drake with their letters of Marque an earlyexample of... » 

Tom Bowling offers a lively history of piracy from ancient times through theRenaissance privateers such as Drake with their letters of Marque an earlyexample of State sponsored terrorism to the still real and flourishing threatof contemporary pirates that patrol the less well regulated shipping lanes ofthe world today. «