A Fine Retribution, Dewey Lambdin
A Fine Retribution, Dewey Lambdin
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A Fine Retribution

Author: Dewey Lambdin

Narrator: John Lee

Unabridged: 13 hr 2 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 09/15/2020


Synopsis

Captain Alan Lewrie and his small squadron defeat four French frigates off northern Spain, winning honor, glory, and renown. So, why is such a successful captain suddenly without a ship, or another active commission? Why do rumors swirl that jealous foes' powerful patrons are blighting his career?

Months on end ashore, even in entertaining London setting up a household for himself and his retinue, getting his portrait painted, put him in serious sulks. Well, the artist is the sister of one of his midshipmen, a delightful and talented young lady of a modern outlook, but not modern enough to become Lewrie's lover. Dare he risk a second marriage? Then, just when things are the rosiest, at last, Admiralty calls upon him to develop and command a plan to raid French-held coasts, not with sailors and Marines from his own ship, but with a battalion of Army troops carried in a squadron of transports. It's intriguing, novel, and a way back to sea, but . . . can he part from the desirable Jessica Chenery? And if Lewrie does, will his foes allow him to succeed? Be certain that Alan Lewrie will prevail, scruples be damned!

About Dewey Lambdin

Dewey Lambdin is the author of the Alan Lewrie series. A member of the US Naval Institute and a Friend of the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, England, he spends his free time working and sailing. (He has been a sailor since 1976.) He makes his home in Nashville, Tennessee, but would much prefer Margaritaville or Murrells Inlet.


Reviews

Goodreads review by John

Always good to be shipping out with Captain Sir Alan Lewrie. After twenty-three adventures finishing this latest one make me wish that number twenty-four wasn't so far away (next year). After winning a specular battle against four French ships, the HMS Sapphire's in such bad shape the only thing Lewr......more

A classic Lewrie Despite much of the book being set in England, I still found this a thoroughly enjoyable read. The well written action sequences were relegated to the final few chapters. I have been puzzling about what sets this series set in Napoleonic times above the slew of others that follow the......more

Goodreads review by Charlie

This book is a typical Alan Lewrie seafaring tale except it centers on Lewrie's ability to liaize with his military partners in the Royal Army and to get them ashore in the developmental early stages of amphibious landings. What really stood out to me was his courting of and subsequent marriage to Je......more

Goodreads review by Bob

I have enjoyed the Alan Lewrie series from the start to now. This latest addition to the series was just great. This time Lawrie has to fight not only the French, but persons,who have an axe to grind with him. To list all of them would take too long as Lewrie points out. On a more happy note Lawrie......more