"We are pirates! We are men and women without a country. We are outlaws in our lives and outcasts in our families. We are desperate, and so we seek desperate fortune. We band ourselves to the trade of piracy on the high seas." This manifesto is proclaimed by Gwen Needle and her band of misfit pirates: Errol, a senile old man whose stash of pirate lore and professed stint in the navy inspired the adventures; Manny, a Haitian caregiver at Errol's nursing home; Amber, Gwen's new best friend; and the shanghaied Cody Glasserman. Gwen's teenage terror/tedium has beset her small family and her father, Phil, is caught up in his next big deal as a radio producer. The tale starts off a seeming lark, turns dark and deadly, and somehow ends somewhat happily - at least for most. This was most assuredly a page-turner and fairly reeked of Daniel Handler's Lemony Snicket prose with frequent repetitions of familiar phrases, i.e., "at this time in history..." etc.
The pirates do encounter a cruise ship...
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