The Fire Drake: Tales of The Hidalgo Trust

Cunningham, Glenn W.

ISBN 10: 0999148702 / ISBN 13: 9780999148709

Published by Futch/Wolf Publishing, 2017

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Fire Drake: Tales of The Hidalgo Trust
• Publisher: Futch/Wolf Publishing
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0999148702
• ISBN 13: 9780999148709
• Binding: Soft cover
• Illustrator: Blum, Christopher
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

The Fire Drake is a prequel to The Hidalgo Trust. In it we are introduced to the progenitors of the Trust and the families involved. Taking place during World War II, The Fire Drake (Hidalgo Trust AAR-0002-04021943) continues the novelization of After Action Reports produced for the benefit of members of the Hidalgo Trust. Tasked with stopping Hitler's newest and most destructive anti-ship missile the members of the Trust team up with American OSS and British SOE operatives. Combining their own unusual resouces with those of the Allies to deflect and destroy the Fire Drakes.

From the Back Cover

The Fire Drake
April,1943

In the North Sea, Maxwell Larsen and Ernst Dietsch, Progenitors ofthe Hidalgo Trust, play a deadly game pitting the newly constructed Q-ship, S.S. LaDonna Johnson, against a Germanwolf pack. Portraying a wounded Liberty ship, the bait will soon turn hunteragainst the U-Boats of the Kriegsmarine. The two old friends soon learn thatthe intense fighting gripping LaDonnaand her crew is just an easy prelude to the upcoming confrontation with theFire Drakes.
Vincent Fullerflies into Germany to join theyoung OSS agents Marie and Lysette Malois. Hiding in an old barn nearPeenemünde the twins are busyspying on Hitler's scientists as they develop new and terrifying weapons.
Russian Count Alexis Voronstov is using all his genius to gainrevenge against the Communists who destroyed his family and his dreams. Joiningwith Nazi German scientists they develop a deadly new weapon with which todecimate the upcoming Allied invasion. Arrayed against the Count are his oldmentor Ernst Johann Dietsch and the members of the Hidalgo Trust; VincentFuller, Maxwell Larsen, Lysette and Marie Malois, and Hiram Snowden. Togetherthey lend their skills and fortunes to the Allied effort to end the threat ofFire Drakes destroying the upcoming D-Day invasion fleet.