The Invasion Year, Dewey Lambdin
The Invasion Year, Dewey Lambdin
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The Invasion Year

Author: Dewey Lambdin

Narrator: John Lee

Unabridged: 13 hr 8 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 12/31/2019

Synopsis

For a fellow like Captain Alan Lewrie, Royal Navy, who despises the French worse than the Devil hates Holy Water, it's hellish-hard to gain a reputation for saving them, not once but twice, when the French refugees from Haiti surrender to England rather than the vengeful ex-slave armies in November of 1803!

After that, it could be "all claret and cruising" in the Caribbean, but for a home-bound sugar convoy, one so frustrating as to make even the happy-go-lucky Alan Lewrie tear his hair out, kick furniture, and curse like . . . well, like a sailor!

Back in England for the first time in two years, there are honors from the Crown for gallant service . . . a lot more than he expected from King George III, who was having a bad morning, then a chance to move in Society after an introduction to an intriguing daughter of a peer. But then come secret orders to experiment with several types of "infernal engines of war," which might delay or postpone the dreaded cross-Channel invasion by Napoleon Bonaparte, his huge army, and his thousands of invasion craft. For the rest of 1804, Alan Lewrie and his crew of the Reliant frigate will deal with things more dangerous to them than they may prove to be to the French!

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 on November 03, 2020

Continues to amuse. The evolution of the character is well managed: our hero continues to grow and thrive. A sympathetic new love interest, showing that deep down, he is a romantic. The handling of the dialogue, seasoned as it is with obsolete and unusual words, is outstanding -- even if the meaning......more

Goodreads review by Terry on May 09, 2021

Another in the always interesting Alan Lewrie series. This one is set in 1804 as Napoleon was gearing up to invade Britain, an altogether believable threat at the time. Our Hero starts this adventure helping to rescue French people from Haiti during the anti-whites revolution (to capture as many Fre......more

Goodreads review by D.w. on June 06, 2015

The tales of Ram Cat Lewrie continue and with the recent preceding novels I have gotten used to the format of learning more of the era of the early 1800s than watching Lewrie have his career at sea explored. The mainstay of this type of fiction is to generally have few reports of what happens ashore......more

Goodreads review by joe on February 23, 2014

real tedious. very slow, and disappointing.......more

Goodreads review by Rich on February 03, 2022

Another superb entry in the Alan Lewrie British naval series. I was sad to learn the author passed away in 2021. Alas, there are not many great age of sail Naval series being written currently with the passing of Dudley Pope and Alexander Kent (pen name). This installment finds our intrepid hero get......more

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