When Charlie said that he wanted to formulate a set of rules in the Gulf of Aden to force those pirates to play strictly according to this set of rules, Porter instantly understood Charlie’s method of work completely.

It was not difficult to be the one with the hardest fist in a region, but the one with the hardest fist might not necessarily be able to make everyone do what he wanted.

If he wanted to become the rule-maker in a region and make everyone do things according to his rules regardl