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  • Enemy of All Mankind

  • A True Story of Piracy, Power, and History's First Global Manhunt
  • By: Steven Johnson
  • Narrated by: Jason Culp
  • Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (24 ratings)
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Summary

“Thoroughly engrossing...a spirited, suspenseful, economically told tale whose significance is manifest and whose pace never flags.” (The Wall Street Journal)

From the New York Times best-selling author of The Ghost Map and Extra Life, the story of a pirate who changed the world.

Henry Every was the 17th century’s most notorious pirate. The press published wildly popular - and wildly inaccurate - reports of his nefarious adventures. The British government offered enormous bounties for his capture, alive or (preferably) dead. But Steven Johnson argues that Every’s most lasting legacy was his inadvertent triggering of a major shift in the global economy. Enemy of All Mankind focuses on one key event - the attack on an Indian treasure ship by Every and his crew - and its surprising repercussions across time and space. It’s the gripping tale of one of the most lucrative crimes in history, the first international manhunt, and the trial of the 17th 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 Johnson’s classic nonfiction historical thriller The Ghost Map, Enemy of All Mankind deftly traces the path from a single struck match to a global conflagration.

©2020 Steven Johnson (P)2020 Penguin Audio

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A good book ruined by shoddy production

I’m fascinated by the subject and this period of history. However, the production value of this audiobook was such a turn off. It was poorly cast and the edit is awful - the voice is tinny, disjointed and there are at least four points where there is a sudden drop out mid sentence and clearly missing text. A cheap and rushed job for a major publisher.

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Ultimately, unsatisfying.

This is a rather typical tale. Men mutiny, seize a ship, go piratical, get caught, get hung.

Differences here? A big score from a non-enemy and ultimate disappearance of the leader.

So full of "we don't knows", could haves" and "will never knows", that i come away wondering wheres the beef?

This is a single event tale with 3/4 of the book as historical filler.

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Johnson ought to have narrated

It would have benefited having Steven Johnson (an avid podcaster) to narrate the book yo.

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