An Onshore Storm, Dewey Lambdin
An Onshore Storm, Dewey Lambdin
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An Onshore Storm

Author: Dewey Lambdin

Narrator: John Lee

Unabridged: 12 hr 8 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 10/13/2020


Synopsis

Three mismatched troop transports, lots of twenty-nine-foot barges, and an under-strength regiment of foot—a waste of Royal Navy money, a doomed experiment, or a new way to bedevil Napoleon's army in Italy? Either way, it's Capt. Sir Alan Lewrie's idea, and it seems to be working, with successful raids all along the coast of Calabria.

But it depends on timely information, and Lewrie must trust Don Julio Caesare, a lord of a Sicilian criminal underworld, and his minions, or the amateur efforts of a disorganized network of Calabrian partisans always in need of British arms and King George III's money.

When at last the fourth transport arrives with reinforcement troops, what seems to be a blessing could turn out to be the ruin of the whole thing! Lewrie has been too successful in his career at sea and he's made bitter, jealous enemies with powerful patrons out to crush him and his novel squadron, no matter if it's succeeding. And there are doings back in England that Lewrie would prefer to deal with but can't.

Lewrie has always been lucky, always finding a way to prevail—but can he this time? And if he is to be betrayed, who will do it?


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 Sunhawk

Only one more of these in prospect. Our Alan has some age on him, and he's swash-buckling a little less now, pining for his good wife, and being a brilliant leader while harassing the Frogs along the Catanian coast. Great fun.......more

Goodreads review by John

The twenty-fourth rollocking sea adventure with Captain Sir Alan Lewrie, Baronet and his crew of the Vigilance finds them off the coast Italy dealing with the army, Italian thieves, British secret agent The French (of course) but the newest winkle in his life is an unseen enemy. Certain members of t......more

Goodreads review by Bob

Alan Lewrie is at it again. This time he is making life for the French in Italy very unpleasant. Teamed with an Army unit, the 94th, Lewrie is staging raids on the coast of Italy against French supply convoys and one pesky bridge. But all is not sweetness in the British camp. They have a spy, who li......more

Goodreads review by Seth

You must know what you're getting by now, right? This adventure is a land-troops-on-shore-to-fight sort of installment, which I like a bit less than the find-another-ship-and-blast-the-hell-out-of-it installments, but it's not bad. Especially notable is the addition of a jumped-up aristocratic young......more