Lancelot Biggs Cooks a Pirate: A Killer Aboard. No Weapons. Just One Mad Cook with a Frying Pan

When Runt Hake locks onto the Saturn's trajectory, every man aboard knows what that means. Hake does not bargain. He boards, he takes what he wants, and he leaves ships behind as frozen tombs. With a crippled engine and no hope of outrunning him, Captain Hanson can only stall for time while the cargo is stripped away and the pirate chief announces he will dine before attending to “business.”

But Lancelot Biggs-recently demoted from First Mate to emergency cook-has been studying more than rec...