The King's Privateer

by Dewey Lambdin

Overview

1783. Fresh from war in the Americas, young navy veteran Alan Lewrie finds London pure pleasure. Then, at Plymouth he boards the trading ship Telesto, bound to find out why merchantmen are disappearing in the East Indies. Between the pungent shores of Calcutta and teaming Canton, Lewrie—reunited with his scoundrel father—discovers a young French captain, backed by an armada of Mindanaon pirates, on a plundering rampage. While treaties tie the navy's hands, a King's privateer is free to plunge into the fire and blood of a dirty little war on the high South China Sea.

Ladies' man, officer, and rogue, Alan Lewrie is the ultimate man of adventure. In the worthy tradition of Hornblower, Aubrey, and Maturin, his exploits echo with the sounds of crowded ports and the crash of naval warfare.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781590137673
Publisher:	Globe Pequot Publishing
Publication date:	10/01/2018
Series:	Alan Lewrie Naval Adventures , #4
Edition description:	Reissue
Pages:	368
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.20(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Dewey Lambdin has been a sailor since 1976 and has also worked as a director, writer, and producer in television and advertising. He is a member of the U.S. Naval Institute, the Cousteau Society, and the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, and is a Friend of the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, England. Besides the Alan Lewrie series, he is also the author of What Lies Buried: A Novel of Old Cape Fear. He lives in Nashville, Tennessee.

Editorial Reviews

His mastery of period naval warfare gives his battles real punch.

Publishers Weekly

If Horatio Hornblower is the gentleman’s sailor and Jack Aubrey is the thinking man’s sailor, Lewrie is of and for the working class. Pugnacious and randy, he’s a refreshing sea breeze.

San Jose Mercury News

Stunning naval adventure, reeking of powder and mayhem. I wish I had written this series.

Bernard Cornwell

You could get addicted to this series. Easily.

New York Times Book Review

In this fourth book of the series begun with The King's Coat (LJ 5/1/89), Lieutenant Alan Lewrie, Royal Navy, continues his adventures in the Far East. Assigned to a ship disguised as a merchant vessel to check on French activities among local pirates, Alan finds plenty of action in Canton, Calcutta, and the islands of the South China Sea. He even runs into his hated father, Sir Hugo, but the two old enemies gain mutual respect as they are compelled to work together. Lambdin provides a well-rounded plot and fascinating, well-researched evocations of late 18th-century Oriental trade cities . . .

Library Journal - C. Robert Nixon

You could get addicted to this series. Easily.

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