Books allow us to escape the confines of reality and explore the realms of imagination. Between the pages of a book, anything is possible, anything can happen. But sometimes, as Mark Twain said, "The truth is stranger than fiction."

Writers spend most of their time searching for a story. Whether it is one they pluck out of thin air, or one they discover on bookshelves of the Dominican Republic’s historical archives.

Robert Kurson is a treasure hunter. He writes the true stories of pirates you’ve never seen on the big screen. As it turns out, real life pirates are bigger than Hollywood portrays them.