This is CBS, I on the world. I'm John Batchel. Sailing the Graveyard Sea, the new book from Richard Snow, The Deathly Voyage of the Summers, The U.S. Navy's only mutiny in the trial that gripped the nation. It is Friday the 24th of November. A man named Wales is approached by Philip Spencer,

the 18-year-old daydreamer, who has notions of being a pirate, just like the pirate's own book

that he read when he was in college. And he tells Wales, are you going to join us?

And he explains the plot.

Richard, what is the plot, as we understand it now, 180 years later?

Well, he said to, first he says to Wales, hey, come with me.

Come up here.

And this tiny ship has only one place of real privacy,

which looks like a woodpil.

It's these spare spars all stacked in the middle of the deck, and they crawl up on top of them.

And then Philip Spencer says that he's got at least 20 people on the ship recruited for his plan.

They're going to be a great pirate ship. They can outgun anything half their size. They can

outrun anything, but they have to. And we'll swing the guns around, we'll get the whole crew on deck at gunpoint,

then we'll decide which ones we need, the others will go overboard, a lot of useless mouths to feed,

to many children, and then we'll go sailing and become rich.

Take ships.

Are you with me?

I'm going to make you one of my officers.

And whales believes this.

And out of sheer self-preservation says, oh, yes, that's a great idea, Phil.

And then weighs through a miserable night to run and tell the captain.

And he can't get at the captain, but he goes to the first lieutenant,

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