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WINDS of FURY Brief narrative synopsis outline The WINDS of FURY Series is an 18thcentury sailor''s tale of adventurous suspense and intrigue. It is a story of a youngGerman lad, Heinrich Drope, born of aristocratic lineage. He becomes entangled infateful circumstances while striving to establish his own merchant shipping businessfar from the lavish lifestyle he was born into. Voyages filled with unforeseendangers await him and his crew over every horizon. Prompted by ardent dreams to besuccessful by hard work, he and his handpicked crew are fatefully destined to faceinhospitable ordeals that ...
WINDS of FURY Brief narrative synopsis outline The WINDS of FURY Series is an 18thcentury sailor''s tale of adventurous suspense and intrigue. It is a story of a youngGerman lad, Heinrich Drope, born of aristocratic lineage. He becomes entangled infateful circumstances while striving to establish his own merchant shipping businessfar from the lavish lifestyle he was born into. Voyages filled with unforeseendangers await him and his crew over every horizon. Prompted by ardent dreams to besuccessful by hard work, he and his handpicked crew are fatefully destined to faceinhospitable ordeals that take them into seas of tribulation and combative peril onthe high seas. Each episode along their life''s route is filled with inevitabledistress, provocation, and enmity as they are hounded by pirates and privateers whoare intent to rob them of their cargo and ship, looking to collect on a bounty setby the British. The disparaging bounty on their heads and subsequent ill-reputeoriginated from a foul deed caused by British naval vessels, which attempted toboard their schooner, the See Wolf, by force. Heinrich refused the British order toheave to and swiftly fled the scene after a brief damning altercation. The Britishwarrant for their capture hangs over the crew''s heads in the navy''s quest to settlethe old score. Committed to forge ahead with his business plans in spite oftraumatic adversity, he and his crew are pitted against disparaging odds and developcreative ways to defend themselves, while still intent on their endeavor as honestmerchant seamen. At every turn in his pursuit to succeed in his business plans he isfaced with desperation and leads to overcoming the "winds of fury" as he rides thewild crest of seas frothing alive with hideous dread of sea battles against enemyships. The turbulent years of being constantly hunted by the British and privateersbecome too insufferable. After many years with numerous cargoes procured and soldsometimes by hook or crook, and the grievous toll of human suffering sustained toget them to market, he and his crew begin to plan ways to change their life''svocation to secure lives of relative peace and safety. Roars of cannon fire blastedits barrages of heavy lead balls into the wooden hulls punching holes and smashingbulwark timbers to shreds and careening onward to smash anything in their pathbrought forth an immense deluge of sea water within the frigate''s holds. Fusilladesof grapeshot in the form of mixed metal projectiles flew across decks clearingswaths where men had stood. Sailor''s screams from fear and howls from intense painpunctuated the air throughout the decks. As if this was not enough hell unleashed,hails of musket fire tore into flesh and shattered bones fired from neatly formedlines onboard the massive schooner which had stealthily approached its target,suddenly appearing out of a thick fog bank. Not only was the attack a completesurprise, but a wholesale slaughter in the making. It was a scene of horrificmayhem. As the See Wolf closed on its target heaving up and down on the sea swells,the distance narrowed dramatically. The anticipated boarding by sailors armed withswords, daggers, axes, and pistols would soon prove to be a gruesome close-in handto hand battle for survival. Each side would have to fight with a zeal so desperateto survive the onslaught. Of German origin, Heinrich Drope, Captain of thecannon-mounted enormous and yet sleek-fast schooner, the See Wolf, plies hismerchant trade in the Caribbean waters and along America''s eastern seaboard indaring voyages hunted by the British navy and hounded by pirate and privateervessels seeking to profit of a hefty bounty set by the English government for anundeserving contrived crime committed against the British navy, which marked them asoutlaws. Although the See Wolf had the speed to outrun nary any ship on the water,it also required a cunning mindset to avoid an
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