A boat has gone missing. Goods have been stolen. There is blood in the water. It is the twenty-first century and a crew of pirates is terrorizing the San Francisco Bay. Phil is a husband, a father, a struggling radio producer. But he'd like to be a rebel and a fortune hunter. Gwen is his daughter. She's fourteen. But she'd like to be an adventurer and an outlaw. A dark, rollicking pirate story for grown-ups, from the mega-bestselling author otherwise known as Lemony Snicket.