Every family has at least one black sheep lurking within the limbs of its tree. The Doyle Family had Michael, a troubled youth. The town of Ballylee, Ireland kept a watchful eye on the lad as he stumbled through his adolescent years. Nothing seemed safe from his prying eye or covetous fingers. Michael took what he wanted with little regard for the rights of others. Fathers locked their daughters up at night in fear of this adventuresome boy. Fleeing the Constabulary, he headed for the United States only to find more mischief and misadventure, which finally attracted the attention of US Marshal Tom Myers. After the marshal witnessed the youth commit a murder, he dedicated his life to hunting down this master criminal and serial killer. Travel with Michael as a passenger on the Pennsylvania Canal System, where, by fate, he turns to river piracy by robbing canal boats.