Port Royal’s privateer rivals were never honorable defenders of empire—they were bribe-soaked machines of extortion, disease, and legalized piracy. Marque Rot drags listeners onto collapsing rat-infested wharves, into rigged courtrooms, and through harbors where forged letters of marque, corrupt governors, starving crews, and open sewers turned patriotism into a lie for sale. In this dark, immersive audiobook, Lucius Vespillo strips away the myth and exposes the greed, rot, and human wreckage beneath it.