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Alan Lewrie naval adventures volume 5
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English
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It's 1786 and Alan Lewrie has his own ship at last, the Alacrity. Small but deadly, the Alacrity prowls the waters of the Caribbean, protecting British merchants from pirates. But Lewrie is still the same old rakehell he always was. Scandal sets tongues wagging in the Bahamas as the young captain thumbs his nose at propriety and makes a few well-planned conquests on land before sailing off to take on Calico Jack Finney, the boldest pirate in the Caribbean....
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English
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Alan Lewrie is a scandalous young rake whose amorous adventures ashore lead to his being shipped off to the Navy. Lewrie finds that he is a born sailor, although life at sea is a stark contrast to the London social whirl to which he had become accustomed. As his career advances, he finds the life of a naval officer suits him.
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Alan Lewrie naval adventures volume 11
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2004, c2003
Language
English
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Alan Lewrie naval adventures volume 10
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2003, c2002
Language
English
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Alan Lewrie naval adventures volume 7
Language
English
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Alan Lewrie is now commander of HMS Jester, an 18-gun sloop. Lewrie sails into Corsica only to receive astonishing orders: he must lure his archenemy, French commander Guillaume Choundas, into battle and personally strike the malevolent spymaster dead. With Horatio Nelson as his squadron commander on one hand and a luscious courtesan who spies for the French on the other, Lewrie must pull out all the stops if he's going to live up to his own reputation...
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Alan Lewrie naval adventures volume 8
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English
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The year is 1796 and the soil of Piedmont and Tuscany runs with blood, another battle takes shape on the mysterious Adriatic Sea. Alan Lewrie and his 18-gun sloop, HMS Jester, part of a squadron of four British warships, sail into the thick of it. But with England's allies failing, Napoleon busy rearranging the world map, and their squadron stretched dangerously thin along the Croatian coast, the British squadron commander strikes a devil's bargain:...
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Alan Lewrie naval adventures volume 4
Publisher
D.I. Fine
Pub. Date
c1992
Language
English
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Alan Lewrie naval adventures volume 25
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
10) H.M.S. Cockerel
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Alan Lewrie naval adventures volume 6
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English
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Yearning for the high seas, Alan Lewrie plods through his oppressive life as a gentleman farmer and family man. The year is 1793 and after four years spent ashore, Lewrie is gratified when revolutionary France threatens war and the Royal Navy beckons. All does not go smoothly, as he soon finds himself aboard the HMS Cockerel dealing with a difficult captain and disgruntled crew. Once in the Mediterranean, he throws caution to the wind and becomes...
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Alan Lewrie naval adventures volume 16
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
12) Reefs and shoals
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Alan Lewrie naval adventures volume 18
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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Alan Lewrie naval adventures volume 15
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
15) Hostile shores
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Alan Lewrie naval adventures volume 19
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Series
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"In Kings and Emperors, the twenty-first book in Dewey Lambdin's beloved Alan Lewrie series, Captain Alan Lewrie, Royal Navy, is still in Gibraltar, his schemes for raids along the coast of Southern Spain shot to a halt. He is reduced to commanding a clutch of harbor defense gunboats in the bay while his ship, HMS Sapphire, slowly grounds herself on a reef of beef bones! Until Napoleon Bonaparte's invasion of peaceful Portugal and his so-called collaborative...
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Alan Lewrie naval adventures volume 12
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
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Alan Lewrie naval adventures volume 17
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2012, c2010
Language
English
Description
After reluctantly saving the last French citizens left on rebellious Haiti, Lewrie finds himself invited back to London to receive honors from the King and soon finds himself back at sea testing a newfangled weapon called a "torpedo" and defending England from an invasion by Napoleon.
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Alan Lewrie naval adventures volume 23
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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"Dewey Lambdin is the reigning master of maritime fiction, celebrated as the heir to Patrick O'Brian and C.S. Forester. For over twenty years, his devoted fans have followed the adventures of Alan Lewrie, Royal Navy, from his days as a midshipman to captain of his own ship and, though on somewhat dubious grounds, a baronetcy. Summer, 1809, and Captain Alan Lewrie, RN, wins fame, glory, and prize-money leading his squadron to victory over four French...
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