King, Ship, and Sword

Alan Lewrie Series, Book 16

De: Dewey Lambdin

Narrado por: John Lee

December 1801. The Peace of Amiens end the long war with Napoleon Bonaparte's France, but Captain Alan Lewrie, Royal Navy, is appalled by its consequences. First, he's been in the Navy since 1780 (most unwillingly, most of the time!) and at sea for the better part of nine years, since 1793, so what is a dashing and successful frigate captain to do with himself, if he's ashore on half-pay, and if so, for how long?

Second, and even worse, is where will Lewrie twiddle his thumbs and be bored to death until the war begins again, as he's sure it will? Will he idle in expensive, exciting London, or go home to his rented farm in Anglesgreen in Surrey, and rejoin his wife and in-laws who (mostly) despise him like the Devil hates Holy Water, where he knows as much of agriculture and animal husbandry as his two pet cats do of celestial navigation?

When war breaks out again in May of 1803, Lewrie has fresh orders, a new frigate, and a chance to punish and pursue the French, but it's no longer for duty or king and country - now it's personal!

©2010 Dewey Lambdin (P)2019 Tantor

Good one

Loved it, the trip to France was a nice departure from life at sea. Cheers

Shoot the Director

With but one exception the book is superb. The supposedly professional actors speaking English with execrable and incomprehensible French accents completely ruined my enjoyment for far too much of what otherwise was a really terrific book. Please do your best to make sure to Never use him again!

Stop what you're doing and start this series.

If you haven't heard of Alan "Mine Arse on a Band-box" Lewrie, you my friend, are missing out! The series is fantastic, with humor, and heros. Bad decisions mixed with bad luck. People might say Alan is a bad guy. I'd probably agree with them. Yet sometimes a protagonist like Alan comes along with the right mix of good hearted intentions, along side an optimistic attitude, next thing you know you start to find them endearing. Read more and you're cheering for ol Alan Lewrie. You'll also find yourself cringing with some of his decisions. It would make me laugh out loud, and later on I'd find my heartstrings strummed. This was the series I had been looking for, I just didn't know it.

All I can say is….

The B@st@rd. Gut shot plot twist. Reaching into the best of fiction on brittish heroes and stealing it - delightfully so. Another excellent installment in the life of that wretched heathen, Allen Lewrie.

Absolutely fantastic

I'm in love with this series and there's no turning back. in for the penny, in for the pound.

Lamden & Lourie are long in the tooth.

Not nearly as good as all the earlier stories. He storyline drug. It's getting old.