The King's Privateer

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Call Number: Fiction
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Originally published: New York : Donald I. Fine, c1992.
"The naval adventures of Alan Lewrie"--Cover.
Alan Lewrie's secret mission, on board the Telesto in the South China Seas, is to keep an eye on the Dutch, Spanish, and French to make sure they don't cause trouble for His Majesty's territories in the region.

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First Rate submitted by GJBarnett2 on August 21, 2023, 10:54pm In the late Age Of Sail, a "First Rate" ship-of-the-line was one that carried more than 100 guns. The term came to mean the best of ... whatever and Dewey Lambdin's Alan Lewrie novels, of which this is the fourth, are among the best of many naval warfare novels set in the period of the American Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars. Described by Lambdin himself as a "ne'er-do-well rakehell," Lewrie is a flawed hero whose humanity comes through in his very complexity. It is clear from the first sentence of the first book, "The King's Coat" that Lewrie is a swordsman in more ways than one and that these are not for the sexually squeamish but the series, and this episode in particular, are right up there with C.S. Forrester's Horatio Hornblower, Patrick O'Brien's Aubrey and Maturin and Alexander Kent's Richard Bolitho.