Alan Lewrie Naval Adventures King, Ship, and Sword: An Alan Lewrie Naval Adventure, Book 16, (Paperback)

from DWWilkin

Alan Lewrie is at it again. This really is a bridge book, now showing us what happens every single year seems to be how Lambdin is writing these novels. Here we have reached the Peace of Amiens, and you will recall that during the siege of Toulon, so long ago in this series, we had met Bonaparte,...

from Shuffy2

There is peace between England and France but for how long? Will it last long enough for a quick second honeymoon for Captain Lewrie and his wife Caroline? Captain Lewrie goes to France with more on his mind than rekindling romance with his wife; he decides to combine business with pleasure. He u...

from wmorton38

This is the most land locked naval adventure I have ever read. The characters spend more time in carriages than on board ship. The main character is more Flashman than Hornblower and, in fact, the whole novel is very like the Flashman novels: roguish hero, breezy prose style, famous historical & ...

from MikeRhode

The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel returns! which is good, but the book reads more like 4 short stories combined.

from aprillee

The tale opens with Captain Lewrie still in the Baltic and in a very cold and boring sort of limbo with the total lack of action as the Peace of Amiens comes into effect. And there's only losing his ship which is to be sent into ordinary at the end of it. It has been said before that Lewrie can f...