With visions of wealth and adventure, William and Samuel Wallace board a ship sailing from New Orleans to Mexico. The Patience, a three-masted barque with a fool for a captain and an untested crew heads into the tail end of a savage squall. Battered and broken, the boat is destroyed, leaving only a handful of crewmen to arrive upon the shores of Mexico. The crisp white sands soon turn crimson as a savage band of freebooters sets upon the survivors. William watches in horror as his brother is among the murdered. Escaping certain death, William Wallace lives only to avenge his brother's death. On his quest for vengeance, Wallace will dare the howling wilderness, tempt fate in the arms of a fiery senorita, and find himself embroiled in the fight for Texas independence where his wildly heroic actions are destined to transform the man into the legend known as...The Red Ripper.