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Author
Series
Alan Lewrie naval adventures volume 1
Publisher
McBooks Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Alan Lewrie is a scandalous young rake whose amorous adventures ashore lead to his being shipped off to the Navy. Lewrie finds that he is a born sailor, although life at sea is a stark contrast to the London social whirl to which he had become accustomed. As his career advances, he finds the life of a naval officer suits him.
Author
Series
Alan Lewrie naval adventures volume 13
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
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 prospect of court martial and a civil trial, Lewrie reluctantly agrees when Zachariah Twigg of the Foreign Office suggests a scheme that might save his career: recasting the incorrigible captain as an abolitionist hero....
Author
Series
Alan Lewrie naval adventures volume 9
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Author
Series
Alan Lewrie naval adventures volume 7
Publisher
McBooks Press
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Author
Series
Alan Lewrie naval adventures volume 4
Publisher
McBooks Press, Inc
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
1783: Back from the war in the Americas, young navy veteran Alan Lewrie finds London pure pleasure. Then, at Plymouth, he boards the trading ship Telesto to find out why merchantmen are disappearing in the East Indies. Between the pungent shores of Calcutta and teeming Canton, Lewriereunited with his scoundrel fatherdiscovers a young French captain, backed by an armada of Mindanao pirates, on a plundering rampage. While treaties tie the navy's hands,...
Author
Series
Alan Lewrie naval adventures volume 25
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
The twenty-fifth novel in Dewey Lambdin's beloved series of historical naval adventure Lewrie loses his ship and his command when he receives news that Vigilance must return to England to be decommissioned and turned over to the dockyards for a complete refit. Lewrie is grounded, put on half-pay, and his crew disperses to look for new positions.It's late Autumn, and being ashore is heavenly, after a time. Lewrie spends time with his wife Jessica,...
Author
Series
Alan Lewrie naval adventures volume 3
Publisher
McBooks Press, Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Fresh from duty on the frigate Desperate in her fight with the French Capricieuse off St. Kitts, Midshipman Alan Lewrie passes his examination board for Lieutenancy and finds himself commissioned first officer of the brig o'war Shrike. There's time for some dalliance with the fair sex, and then Lieutenant Lewrie must be off to patrol the North American coast and attempt to bring the Muskogees and Seminoles onto the British side against the American...
Author
Series
Alan Lewrie naval adventures volume 21
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"In Kings and Emperors, the twenty-first book in Dewey Lambdin's beloved Alan Lewrie series, Captain Alan Lewrie, Royal Navy, is still in Gibraltar, his schemes for raids along the coast of Southern Spain shot to a halt. He is reduced to commanding a clutch of harbor defense gunboats in the bay while his ship, HMS Sapphire, slowly grounds herself on a reef of beef bones! Until Napoleon Bonaparte's invasion of peaceful Portugal and his so-called collaborative...
Author
Series
Alan Lewrie naval adventures volume 14
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Author
Series
Alan Lewrie naval adventures volume 18
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Captain Alan Lewrie of the Royal Navy is ordered to head to Cuba and Spanish Florida to search for French and Spanish privateers who have been preying on British merchantmen and discover if the privateers have been getting aid from the Americans.
Author
Series
Alan Lewrie naval adventures volume 8
Publisher
G.K. Hall
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
A scheme by the Royal Navy to enroll Serb pirates in fighting the French during the Napoleonic Wars is opposed by Alan Lewrie, captain of a sloop in the Adriatic. But the commander of his squadron goes ahead anyway and the consequences are disastrous, the Serbs taking the opportunity for some ethnic cleansing.
Author
Series
Alan Lewrie naval adventures volume 10
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Author
Series
Alan Lewrie naval adventures volume 20
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The year 1807 starts out badly for Captain Alan Lewrie. His frigate HMS Reliant has a new captain, he's living at his father's estate at Anglesgreen among spiteful neighbors and family and he's recovering from a wound suffered in the South Atlantic. At last, there's a bright spot. When fit, Admiralty awards him a new commission. Lewrie's ordered to Gibraltar but Foreign Office Secret Branch's spies and manipulators have use for him again.
15) Havoc's sword
Author
Series
Alan Lewrie naval adventures volume 11
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
1798. Royal Navy Captain Alan Lewrie participates in a duel to uphold the honor of his friend, receives unwelcome visitors on behalf of the queen, and prepares for a showdown with his nemesis, Guillaume Choundas.
Author
Series
Alan Lewrie naval adventures volume 22
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Dewey Lambdin is the reigning master of maritime fiction, celebrated as the heir to Patrick O'Brian and C.S. Forester. For over twenty years, his devoted fans have followed the adventures of Alan Lewrie, Royal Navy, from his days as a midshipmen to captain of his own ship and, though on somewhat dubious grounds, a baronetcy. 1809 starts out badly for Captain Alan Lewrie, RN, and his ship, HMS Sapphire. They've extracted the sick, cold survivors of...
Author
Series
Alan Lewrie naval adventures volume 24
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
To attack Napoleon's army in Italy, Captain Sir Alan Lewrie relies on the help of a Sicilian underworld boss and Calabrian partisans, but after his reinforcements arrive, his success is threatened by powerful enemies from his past.
Author
Series
Alan Lewrie naval adventures volume 12
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Author
Series
Alan Lewrie naval adventures volume 17
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
After reluctantly saving the last French citizens left on rebellious Haiti, Lewrie finds himself invited back to London to receive honors from the King and soon finds himself back at sea testing a newfangled weapon called a "torpedo" and defending England from an invasion by Napoleon.
Author
Series
Alan Lewrie naval adventures volume 23
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Dewey Lambdin is the reigning master of maritime fiction, celebrated as the heir to Patrick O'Brian and C.S. Forester. For over twenty years, his devoted fans have followed the adventures of Alan Lewrie, Royal Navy, from his days as a midshipman to captain of his own ship and, though on somewhat dubious grounds, a baronetcy. Summer, 1809, and Captain Alan Lewrie, RN, wins fame, glory, and prize-money leading his squadron to victory over four French...
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