The Pirate boat is in no fit state for adventure. With patches of mould on the ceiling and the boat's wheel being used as a dartboard, the Pirate Captain decides it's time to take action. Soon the pirates find themselves the proud owners of a swanky new boat.and a crippling debt of six thousand doubloons. In a desperate race against time to pay back the beautiful but deadly Cutlass Liz, the Butcher of Barbados, the pirates embark on a new adventure filled with plenty of roaring, pirate capers and ham.'A grown-up comedy disguised as a kids' book, the third in Defoe's Pirates! trilogy is culty and very funny. Think Captain Pugwash for a generation that should know better - but doesn't' Arena.'Gideon Defoe definitively puts the Ho ho! - and, indeed, the Yo! - into pirating' Caitlin Moran.

'Funny and entertaining' Independent.'A timber-shivering adventure that speaks to the pirate in all of us' Ben Schott.