<p><b><i>Our Flag Means Death</i> meets <i>Six of Crows</i> in this queer pirate adventure from the author of <i>A Taste of Gold and Iron.</i></b><br><br><b>'Come for the irrepressible gremlin of a narrator, stay for the plot-relevant cake competitions! A whip-smart, hilarious and exuberant high seas romp' – </b><b>Freya Marske, <i>Sunday Times</i> bestselling author of <i>A Marvellous Light</i> </b><br><br>Avra Helvaçi, former field agent of the Arashti Ministry of Intelligence, has accidentally stolen the single most expensive secret in the world – and the only place to flee with a secret that big is the open sea.<br><br>To find a buyer with deep enough pockets, Avra must work with his on-again, off-again ex, the pirate Captain Teveri az-Haffar. Together, they will have to risk journeying to the isolated pirate repu