Stormbirds of New Orleans depicts vivid characters like gorgeous Cajan Minette of the Bayous, swash-buckling Roger fighting the slave-hunters, the giant educated black slave Desserone and the cult of Dombala, Lillie, Paul's bewitching quadroon mistress, the rich, powerful Don Lopez, scheming to get Minette from Roger, his bastard unscrupulous daughter Norma, La La of Voodoo medicine and her terrible gris-gris, Captain Lafitte and the pirates of Barataria. Enemy British Major Hadley, General Jackson and the Battle of Orleans, the final duel at The Oaks.