The real-life adventures of eight famous pirates, privateers, and naval raiders who operated along the treacherous N.C. coast between the early 1700s and the end of the Civil War. Features biographies of pirates Blackbeard and Stede Bonnett, privateer Otway Burns and naval raider Johnston Blakeley, and Confederate raiders James Cooke, John Maffitt, John Taylor Wood, and James Waddell.