At the Outpost of Fate

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I am indebted to my friends Bill Craig, Mark Orr and especially George Elder for their creative input in crafting the characters that populate this adventure. You guys were inspirational.

I would also like to thank Kent Holloway, Tommy Hancock, and Christian Guldager for their contributions to creating the book you are now reading.

— Sean Ellis (April 2011)

…IN THE GOLDEN AGE OF ADVENTURE…

It was hard to believe, judging from the perfect blue of the sky and the gentle ripple that stirred the waters of the Great Sound, that one of the deadliest storms in a decade was gathering energy just a few hundred miles to the south. Forecasters had been watching the storm for five days now and the latest reports showed it turning north, skirting the islands of the Caribbean. Puerto Rico would get a drenching, but the remote islands in the Atlantic would escape the full fury of the hurricane force winds. The mainland of the United States was not expected to be so lucky.

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