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Laddar... The King's Marauderav Dewey Lambdin
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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. Another good entry in an excellent series. Alan Lewrie recovers from his wound, loses his beloved frigate and his current love interest but gains the command of a fifty gun warship. Off to Gibraltar on an independent cruise to work for his least favorite government group, supporting spies and fomenting revolution. He succeeds admirably, sinking French and Spanish ships while rescuing a lovely Portuguese paramour from an ungrateful army officer. Lewrie is older, wiser but still the "Ramcat " on sea and land. inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
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"The year 1807 starts out badly for Captain Alan Lewrie, Royal Navy. 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; not a frigate but a clumsy, slow two-decker Fourth Rate 50. Are his frigate days over for good? Lewrie's ordered to Gibraltar, but Foreign Office Secret Branch's spies and manipulators have use for him, again! HMS Sapphire is the wrong ship for the task, raising chaos and mayhem along the Spanish coasts, and servicing agents and informers. And, what he's ordered to do needs soldiers, landing craft, and a transport ship, all of which he doesn't have, and must find a way to finagle it all. He could beg off and say that it's asking too much, but. Alan Lewrie is not a man to admit failure and defeat, and his quest might prove the most daunting of his long naval career. For fans of historical fiction, Dewey Lambdin's Alan Lewrie series ranks alongside such greats as Patrick O'Brian and C.S. Forester for its terrific period detail and irresistible hero. "-- Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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Still, we see some of Lewrie's life ashore, and how now he has an entire entourage of ship's people to accompany him about. He is a successful Captain. And like many of the time, he was in and out of ships, and there was time in between. Many other writers of this genre would never comment on the time between, but Lambdin takes extra care to do so and to create a plausible reason for Lewrie to be leading a ship on adventure during the time of the blockade of France and Spain.
A time when their might be no adventure, though Hornblower did find himself in one escaping from a French prison.
All in all, a pretty good continuation of the series and worthy of its being reread when the entire series is tackled once more. ( )