"The third flag - Anna's resplendent dragon on its rippling black background - had been slashed to tatters. What did pirates do anyway? In real life and the twenty-first century? ... Donny Walker and his Allies - Anna, Xanthe, Maggi and Luke - come dangerously close to finding out. Their adventures take them to semi-derelict docklands, up the deserted and beautiful River Stour and onwards to Britain's most easterly point"--Publisher's description.