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    The Gun Ketch
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    The Gun Ketch

    Written by Dewey Lambdin

    Narrated by John Lee

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    "You could get addicted to this series. Easily."
    --The New York Times Book Review
    1788--Bahamas Squadron . . .
    A fighter, rogue, and ladies man, Alan Lewrie has done the unthinkable and gotten himself hitched--to a woman and a ship! The woman is the lovely Caroline Chiswick. The ship is the gun ketch, Alacrity, bound for the Bahamas and a bloody game of cat and mouse with the pirates who ply the lunatic winds there. But while war comes naturally to the young husband, politics doesn't. Sure that a powerful Bahamian merchant is behind a scourge of piracy, Lewrie runs afoul of the Royal Governor--who holds the most precious hostage of all. . . .
    From the windswept Carolinas to the exotic East Indies, Alan Lewrie fights and frolics with all the wild abandon of the high seas themselves. He's a true swashbuckling naval hero in the age of great sailing ships.
    "Grand, satisfying . . . Fans as well as newcomers will relish Lambdin's unerring depiction of Navy politicking, the niceties of Nassau society . . . and, in fact, all the rich details of late-18th-century life at sea and shore."
    --PublishersWeekly
    "Hair-raising action . . . Fascinating . . . Grandly entertaining."
    --The Flint Journal
    "Recommended . . . Lambdin's work is comparable to that of masters such as C. S. Forester."
    --Library Journal
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateFeb 9, 2010
    ISBN9780307739209
    Author

    Dewey Lambdin

    Dewey Lambdin is the author of the Alan Lewrie novels. A member of the U.S. Naval Institute and a Friend of the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, England, he spends his free time working and sailing on a rather tatty old sloop. He makes his home in Nashville, Tennessee.

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    • 4/5
      Lambdin can sure write a battle scene! Characters, even the minor ones, are once again interesting and well-developed--even the nasty ones. Good research, and less intrusive than in the previous book in this series. To sum: A rollicking adventure, but still with the exclamation points.
    • 4/5
      Lambdin can sure write a battle scene! Characters, even the minor ones, are once again interesting and well-developed--even the nasty ones. Good research, and less intrusive than in the previous book in this series. To sum: A rollicking adventure, but still with the exclamation points.