Captain Kidd was one of the most notorious pirates to ever prowl the seas. But few know that Kidd had an accomplice, a behind-the-scenes player who enabled his plundering and helped him outpace his enemies.   That accomplice was his wife, Sarah Kidd, a well-to-do woman whose extraordinary life is a lesson is survival, resilience and resourcefulness. Twice widowed by twenty-one, and operating within the strictures of polite society in seventeenth and eighteenth century New York, Sarah secretly aided and abetted her husband, fighting alongside him against his accusers. More remarkable still is that Sarah not only survived the tragedy wrought by her infamous husband’s deeds, but went on to live a successful and productive life as one of New York’s most prominent and respectable citizens.   Marshalling in newly discovered primary source documents from archives in London, New York and Boston, historian and journalist Daphne Palmer Geanacopoulos reco