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Thoroughly engrossing. . . .a spirited, suspenseful, economically told tale whose significance is manifest and whose pace never flags. Wall Street Journal The New York Times bestselling author of Ghost Map and How We Got to Now returns with the story of a pirate who changed the world Henry Every was the seventeenth centurys most notorious pirate. The press published wildly popularand wildly inaccuratereports of his nefarious adventures. The British government offered enormous bounties for his capture, alive or (preferably) dead. But Steven Johnson argues that Everys most lasting legacy was his inadvertent triggering of a major shift in the global economy. Enemy of All Mankind focuses on one key eventthe attack on an Indian treasure ship by Every and his crewand its surprising repercussions across time and space. Its the gripping tale one of the most lucrative crimes in history, the first international manhunt, and the trial of the seventeenth century. Johnson uses the extraordinary story of Henry Every and his crimes to explore the emergence of the East India Company, the British Empire, and the modern global marketplace: a densely interconnected planet ruled by nations and corporations. How did this unlikely pirate and his notorious crime end up playing a key role in the birth of multinational capitalism? In the same mode as Johnsons classic non-fiction historical thriller The Ghost Map, Enemy of All Mankind deftly traces the path from a single struck match to a global conflagration.

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ALSO BY STEVEN JOHNSON Interface Culture How New Technology Transforms the - photo 1
ALSO BY STEVEN JOHNSON

Interface Culture: How New Technology Transforms the Way We Create and Communicate

Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software

Mind Wide Open: Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life

Everything Bad Is Good for You: How Todays Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter

The Ghost Map:The Story of Londons Most Terrifying Epidemicand How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World

The Invention of Air: A Story of Science, Faith, Revolution, and the Birth of America

Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation

Future Perfect:The Case for Progress in a Networked Age

How We Got to Now:Six Innovations That Made the Modern World

Wonderland:How Play Made the Modern World

Farsighted:How We Make the Decisions That Matter the Most

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Names: Johnson, Steven, 1968 author.

Title: Enemy of all mankind: a true story of piracy, power, and historys first global manhunt / Steven Johnson.

Description: New York: Riverhead Books, 2020. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2019022493 (print) | LCCN 2019022494 (ebook) | ISBN 9780735211605 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780735211629 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Avery, John, active 1695. | PiratesGreat BritainBiography. | PiracyEconomic aspectsGreat BritainHistory. | PiracyEconomic aspectsMogul EmpireHistory. | International economic relationsHistory. | Great BritainEconomic conditions17th century. | Mogul EmpireEconomic conditions17th century. | Mogul EmpireForeign economic relationsGreat Britain. | Great BritainForeign economic relationsMogul Empire.

Classification: LCC G537.A9 J64 2020 (print) | LCC G537.A9 (ebook) | DDC 910.4/5dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019022493

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019022494

Map by Jeffrey L. Ward

Cover design: Gregg Kulick

Cover images: (flag, crossbones, hourglass) Culture Club / Hulton Archive / Getty Images; (depiction of Henry Everys pirate flag) Unknown author via Wikimedia Commons

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Elegant and excellent was the pirates answer to the great Macedonian Alexander - photo 5

Elegant and excellent was the pirates answer to the great Macedonian Alexander, who had taken him: the king asking him how he dare molest the seas so, he replied with a free spirit, How dare thou molest the whole world? But because I do with a little ship only, I am called a thief: thou doing it with a great navy, art called an emperor.

S T . A UGUSTINE , The City of God

Suffer pirates and the commerce of the world must cease.

H ENRY N EWTON

The Indian Ocean west of Surat September 11 1695 On a clear day the - photo 6

The Indian Ocean, west of Surat

September 11, 1695

On a clear day the lookout perched atop the forty-foot mainmast of the Mughal - photo 7

On a clear day, the lookout perched atop the forty-foot mainmast of the Mughal treasure ship can see almost ten miles before hitting the visual limits of the horizon line. But it is late summer, in the tropical waters of the Indian Ocean; the humidity lingering in the air draws a hazy curtain across the spyglass lens. And so by the time the English vessel comes into focus, she is only five miles away.

The existence of an English ship in these waters is hardly noteworthy. They are only a few days sail from Surat, one of Indias most prosperous port cities, and the original headquarters of the East India Company. At first sight, the lookout doesnt even think it necessary to sound an alarm. Yet as the seconds pass, as the blurred shape of the boat looms in the spyglass, something catches his attention in the approaching vessel: not her colors, but her speed in the water. The ship is in full sail, he can see now, running before the wind. And she is moving fast, at least ten knots, maybe moreeasily twice the top speed of the treasure ship. The lookout has never seen a ship sail with such velocity across the open water.

By the time the lookout alerts the crew below him, the English ship is already visible to the naked eye.

From his vantage point on the quarterdeck, the captain of the Indian ship still has little reason to fear the approaching vessel, however fast she might be. He has eighty cannons lining his gun decks, supported by four hundred muskets and nearly a thousand men. From what he can make out, the English ship cannot have more than fifty cannons and a fraction of his crew. Even if she is under the command of pirates on the attack, the captain has been at sea for months without incident; he has sailed unchallenged through the notorious pirates nest at the mouth of the Red Sea. Now he is practically in sight of his home port in Surat. What pirate would dare to challenge him in these waters, with so little firepower?

But the captain does not know the long history that has brought these two ships together. He does not know that the men aboard the English vessel have traveled thousands of miles to get this close to a ship returning to harbor with unimaginable riches in its hold, that they have waited more than a year for this precise opportunity. He does not know what these men are capable of, the crimes they have already committed.

And he does not know the near future, the two improbable events that are about to unfold within seconds of each other, radically undermining his advantage.

The sequence begins with the smallest of mistakes. An inexperienced gunner packs an extra ounce or two of gunpowder into the chamber of a cannon. Or perhaps, days or weeks earlier, the gun crew fails to clean the cannon properly, and a residue of gunpowder remains in the chamber, unnoticed. Or perhaps the chain of events starts much further back, in a blast furnace somewhere in India, where a minuscule flaw is formed in the cast-iron reinforce that houses the ignition chamber, a flaw that goes undetected for years, slowly weakening with each blast, until one day it fails.

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