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    Pirates of Misfortune
    Pirates of Misfortune
    Pirates of Misfortune
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    Pirates of Misfortune

    By L Frank Turovich

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    Captain Bartolo de Soto commands the Troubadour, a cursed and unlucky pirate ship. If de Soto's fortune doesn't change soon the crew led by first officer Pieterzoon will mutiny. Only the beautiful singer Maritza has the answer, if he can survive long enough to hear it.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherL Frank Turovich
    Release dateJun 15, 2015
    ISBN9781940246093
    Pirates of Misfortune
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    L Frank Turovich

    L Frank Turovich (1956- ) was born and raised in Flint, Michigan where he became a rabid reader of science fiction, fantasy, mysteries, comics and everything else not nailed down. He’s spent time in the Marine Corp before breaking into writing via articles in Nibble Mac and Inside BASIC magazines, then graduated to technical writing, training, and managing teams for companies like Zedcor, Metrowerks, Motorola, Freescale Semiconductor, and Nokia, before leaving to pursue his fiction writing ambition. He currently resides in Michigan in a home filled with books, computers, and two cats (Java and Larry).

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      Pirates of Misfortune - L Frank Turovich

      Pirates of Misfortune

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      L Frank Turovich

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      Captain Bartolo de Soto commands the cursed and unlucky pirate ship Troubadour. The singer Maritza’s fortune offers him a chance at redemption, but if that fails his crew will take matters into their own hands and mutiny.

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      PIRATES OF MISFORTUNE

      Jonah’s pestilence on that cat, Captain Bartolo de Soto growled. He took a swig from a clay jug of cheap wine. It was all he could afford. All because the ship’s cat had forsaken its normal prey of rats and instead pounced and feasted on an unwary gull right there on the quarterdeck for all to see. Now he was drowning his sorrow drinking cheap wine.

      He staggered along Port-of-Spain’s filthy South Quay road in search of diversion. They crowded the walkways with merchants that brayed like mules at every passerby. Food vendors hawked charred joints of meat seasoned with sharp mischievous spices from over smoking grills. Red-coated conquistadors swaggered by in search of liquid or warm fleshy entertainment, before departing in search of mysterious El Dorado. Off-duty sailors and sailors from every world's port wandered by, their thirsts for ale or grog and lust of brawling and native whores foremost in their minds.

      Bartolo ignored them, drank again and cursed his ill luck. After his last failed raiding excursion he had just enough funds for one more attempt. His scabrous and embittered crew demanded success, and he had failed to deliver. The slippery Spanish and Portuguese merchants, may their souls burn in Hell, now traveling in groups for mutual protection. A lone marauder had

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