Globe Pequot / McBooks Press
Pages: 400
Trim: 5½ x 8½
978-1-59013-129-9 • Paperback • September 2006 • $24.95 • (£18.99) - Currently out of stock. Copies will arrive soon.
978-1-59013-215-9 • eBook • September 2006 • $5.99 • (£4.99)
Dewey Lambdin has been a sailor since 1976 and has also worked as a director, writer, and producer in television and advertising. He is a member of the U.S. Naval Institute, the Cousteau Society, and the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, and is a Friend of the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, England. Besides the Alan Lewrie series, he is also the author of What Lies Buried: A Novel of Old Cape Fear. He lives in Nashville, Tennessee.
Lambdin throws in a lot of ripping sea and land battles, a slew of vicious pirates and smugglers, a couple of nasty nemeses and one very dangerous corrupt official. Alan's triumph is only one of many things to cheer about—series fans as well as newcomers will relish Lambdin's unerring depiction of Navy politicking, the niceties of Nassau society (including the hierarchy of color among natives) and, in fact, all the rich details of late-18th-century life at sea and shore.
(Previous Edition Praise)— Publishers Weekly
Stunning naval adventure, reeking of powder and mayhem. I wish I had written this series.
— Bernard Cornwell, Author, Excalibur / Sharpe's Fury
The brilliantly stylish American master of salty-tongued British naval tales.
— Kirkus Reviews
If Horatio Hornblower is the gentleman’s sailor and Jack Aubrey is the thinking man’s sailor, Lewrie is of and for the working class. Pugnacious and randy, he’s a refreshing sea breeze.
— San Jose Mercury News
You could get addicted to this series. Easily.
— New York Times Book Review