From the unseemly beginnings of an impoverished Irish lad given to abuse and neglect by his wayward drunken father, young Tobias Rude finds himself on a collision course with life driving him to commit desperate acts and meet desperate people along the way to obtain the freedom that he had so desperately craved in his boyhood amid the call of the open seas as years of betrayal, hardship and manipulation work to mold him into the most fearsome pirate of legend, Captian Redwolf, of The Red Wave Avenger.