Author: Dewey Lambdin Year: 2010 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Historical fiction, Fiction
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THE SIXTEENTH TALE IN DEWEY LAMBDIN'S CLASSIC NAVAL ADVENTURE SERIES
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?
Peace and domesticity are hellish-hard on the rakehells!
Yet by the spring of 1802, Lewrie and his Caroline have "somewhat" reconciled (again) and are off to make a go of a second honeymoon - in Paris, France, of all places! But Lewrie's notion to return the swords captured from deceased French officers to their kinfolk gets turned into a formal presentation at a levee in the Tuileries, and a face-to-face rencontre with the First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte. Lewrie "can't help" spurring him into a "kick-furniture" rage, and he and Caroline must flee for their lives, with aid from the most unlikely source imaginable.
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!
This book is part of the "Alan Lewrie" series. Here are some other books from this series:
 | "Havoc's Sword" First published in 2003 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Sea of Grey" First published in 2002 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "King's Captain" First published in 2000 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Jester's Fortune" First published in 1999 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "A King's Commander" First published in 1997 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "H.M.S. Cockerel" First published in 1995 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "The Gun Ketch" First published in 1993 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "The King's Privateer" First published in 1992 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "The French Admiral" First published in 1990 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "The King's Coat" First published in 1989 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "A King's Trade" Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
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