Dewey Lamdbin, Author, Dewey Lambdin, Author Dutton Books $21.95 (400p) ISBN 978-1-55611-187-7
Fans garnered by Alan Lewrie (in The King's Coat and The French Admiral ) will gladly follow the 19-year-old scamp in his latest maritime adventure. In 1783, three years after being forced into the Royal Navy, Alan has risen to first lieutenant on...
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Dewey Llambdin, Author, Dewey Lambdin, Author Dutton Books $23.95 (368p) ISBN 978-1-55611-446-5
As in the five earlier novels chronicling the adventures of 18th-century British naval lieutenant Alan Lewrie (The Gun Ketch, etc.), Lambdin here serves up a fast-moving yarn loaded with action, colorful characters and marvelous period detail. In...
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Dewey Lambdin, Author . St. Martin's/Dunne $25.95 (372p) ISBN 978-0-312-28688-0
A starred or boxed review indicates a book of outstanding quality. A review with a blue-tinted title indicates a book of unusual commercial interest that hasn't received a starred or boxed review.HAVOC'S SWORDDewey Lambdin. St. Martin's/D
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Dewey Lambdin, Author . St. Martin's/Dunne $25.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-312-31547-4
This 12th installment of the Alan Lewrie naval adventure series sends the British captain to 1799 New Orleans in pursuit of pirates. Unlike the manly, ship-shape society aboard his frigate, New Orleans seems dominated by seductive women, especially...
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Dewey Lambdin, Author . St. Martin's/Dunne $25.95 (339p) ISBN 978-0-312-31549-8
The 13th title in Lambdin's popular series finds salacious Royal Navy captain Alan Lewrie in hot water for "liberating" a dozen slaves from their Caribbean plantation and putting them to work on his ship, the HMS Proteus
. Facing the...
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Dewey Lambdin, Author . St. Martin's/Dunne $24.95 (307p) ISBN 978-0-312-34805-2
During the Napoleonic Wars, Royal Navy Capt. Alan Lewrie (Sea of Grey
) finds that he has been sentenced to death in absentia by a Jamaican kangaroo court for stealing slaves, and is pursued to England by enemies trying to carry out that sentence....
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Dewey Lambdin, Author . St. Martin's/Dunne $25.95 (353p) ISBN 978-0-312-34806-9
Lambdin and his Napoleonic War hero, Capt. Alan Lewrie, do their usual nautical thing in the series' 15th installment, but this account of the Battle of Copenhagen takes a backseat to the main character's Tom Jones antics and some...
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Dewey Lambdin, Author . St. Martin’s/Dunne $25.99 (358p) ISBN 978-0-312-55184-1
Alan Lewrie, intrepid sailor and charming scoundrel, is back in Lambdin’s superb 16th Royal Navy adventure. Lewrie is an endearing character—hero, philanderer, smuggler, spy: a courageous naval officer unencumbered by high morals or...
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Dewey Lambdin, St. Martin's/Dunne, $25.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-312-55185-8
Set in 1803, Lambdin's less than exciting 17th Alan Lewrie adventure (after King, Ship and Sword) finds the rakish Royal Navy captain and his ship in Haiti. After helping to rescue a French fleet from a bloody slave rebellion, Lewrie and crew escort
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Dewey Lambdin, Author Dutton Books $19.95 (397p) ISBN 978-1-55611-142-6
Comparisons will be made between Midshipman Alan Lewrie and Forester's Horatio Hornblower, but this auspicious beginning of a series has a very modern sensibility. In 1780, at the age of 17, our hero, bastard son of Sir Hugo Willoughby, is already a
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Dewey Lambdin, Author Dutton Books $21.95 (312p) ISBN 978-1-55611-356-7
Although we're accustomed to more rollicking tales about the Royal Navy's Lt. Alan Lewrie than Lambdin offers here--in the first scene our hero is being married, ``quaking but not completely in terror of his bachelorhood's demise''--this followup to
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Dewey Lambdin, Author Dutton Books $24.95 (384p) ISBN 978-1-55611-504-2
It's 1793 and lusty young Alan Lewrie of the British navy (H.M.S. Cockerel, etc.) is now commander of HMS Jester, patrolling the Ligurian Sea in order to support the onshore Austrian army, harass the French navy and remind various Italian states to...
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Dewey Lambdin, Author Thomas Dunne Books $25.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-312-26885-5
The ninth book in Lambdin's Alan Lewrie series (The King's Coat, etc.) begins rousingly enough with the famous British defeat of a Spanish armada at Cape Saint Vincent in 1797. Lewrie comes in for some glory by trusting Nelson and participating in...
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Dewey Lambdin, Author Thomas Dunne Books $25.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-312-28685-9
The tenth in the series of Alan Lewrie nautical adventures by Dewey Lambdin, Sea of Grey finds the swashbucklin', wisecrackin' 18th-century British naval officer who habitually drops his gs aiding the French in their attempts to suppress...
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Dewey Lambdin, Author Dutton Books $26.95 (373p) ISBN 978-0-525-94482-9
The eighth title in the Alan Lewrie adventure series (after The King's Coat) finds our hero in 1796 the commander of the sloop HMS Jester, one of four Royal Navy ships patrolling the Adriatic. Napoleon has been marauding in Northern Italy and the...
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Dewey Lambdin. St. Martin’s/Dunne, $25.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-312-59571-5
The year is 1805 and Royal Navy Capt. Alan Lewrie is back in all his swashbuckling debauchery, in Lambdin’s latest Napoleonic naval warfare novel, far better than 2010’s The Invasion Year. Lambdin succeeds with high-seas action, bravado, and Lewrie’s
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