A dark, rollicking pirate story for grown-ups, from the mega-bestselling author otherwise known as lemony snicket description 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 and the owner of a large condo with a view of the water but he"d like to be a rebel and a fortune hunter gwen is his daughter she"s fourteen she"s a student, a swimmer and a best friend but she"d like to be an adventurer and an outlaw phil teams up with his young, attractive assistant they head for the open road, attending a conference to seal a deal gwen teams up with a new, fierce friend and some restless souls they head for the open sea, stealing a boat to hunt for treasure we are pirates! is a novel about our desperate searches for happiness and freedom, about our wild journeys beyond the boundaries of our ordinary lives also, it"s about a teenage girl who pulls together a ragtag crew to commit mayhem in the san francisco bay, while her hapless father tries to get her home