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Although we're accustomed to more rollicking tales about the Royal Navy's Lt. Alan Lewrie than Lambdin offers here--in the first scene our hero is being married, "quaking but not completely in terror of his bachelorhood's demise"--this followup to The King's Privateer is still a grand, satisfying yarn. Newlyweds Alan and Caroline set sail in 1786 for the Bahamas, where he'll captain HMS Alacrity to enforce the Navigation Acts. The handsome young Lewries are rapturously, carnally happy and Alan's occasional sea tours only hone their appetites for each other. But there are snakes in Eden. Alan finds himself in trouble with authority when he tries to fight smugglers honorably, and simultaneously to suppress jealousy about Caroline. 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.
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This fifth book in a series of 18th-century sea thrillers (following The King's Privateer , Donald I. Fine, 1992) continues the adventures of Royal Navy Officer Alan Lewrie. Posted to command the two-masted, ten-gun Alacrity with its new crew and officers, Lewrie is to sail to the Bahamas to protect trade and suppress piracy. Before leaving England, he takes a wife, whose presence aboard the Alacrity serves to curb his previous hell-raising lifestyle. Patrols in the Bahamas provide the focus of a story involving piracy, corruption in high places, and naval action at sea. Finally, Lewrie is able to bring the notorious pirate "Calico Jack" Finney to justice. Lambdin's work is comparable to that of masters such as C.S. Forester in its technical detail, but it is distinguished by the interesting use of bawdy humor and the fact that the author is an American. Recommended for public libraries.
- Harold N. Boyer, Marple P.L., Broomall, Pa.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. --Ce texte provient d'une édition qui n'est plus publiée ou qui est non diponible.
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5.0étoiles sur 5 C.S. Forester with a sense of humour and sex, Déc 23 2004
Par Don McCaffrey (Ottawa,, Ontario Canada) - Voir tous mes commentaires
Dewey Lambden is a C.S. Forester with a sense of humour and sex. He makes OBrien seem wordy and Alexander Kent seem pale and prissy.
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4.0étoiles sur 5 What do you do when there's no war to fight?, Mai 26 2004
Par Michael K. Smith (Gonzales, Louisiana) - Voir tous mes commentaires
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Ce commentaire est de: The Gun Ketch (Hardcover)
Lieutenant Alan Lewrie is enjoying a few weeks in England, in between the completion of his anti-pirate adventures in the Far East (as recounted in The King's Privateer) and taking up his new assignment in command of the gun ketch ALACRITY as part of the Bahamas Squadron. Such a small vessel doesn't ordinarily rate more than one commissioned officer, but on the Navy's books it's a "sloop," so Capt. Lewrie finds himself with a first officer, the rather prim but engaging Arthur Ballard, who actually is Lewrie's senior in terms of naval experience but seems to harbor no jealousy about their relationship. (In fact, the two soon become friends as well as trusting colleagues and it's apparent Ballard is destined to become "Bush" to Lewrie's "Hornblower.") Alan spends much of his time ashore with the Chiswicks in Surrey (the family he helped rescue in _The French Admiral_) and is dismayed to find that Caroline Chiswick, for whom he has a soft spot, is being matched off by her uncle to the swinish heir of the local baronet. Suddenly, Lewrie finds himself doing what he never expected: getting married. And, rather than leave his bride in Plymouth, he allows her to talk him into taking her to Nassau with him. Naval novels set in peacetime sometimes have to go far afield to find an entertaining plot, and Lewrie's domestic adjustments, together with a struggle against another set of pirates (and the corrupt civil and naval officials with whom they are in league) make for an engaging yarn.

However: The author seems not to understand the distinction between an exclamation mark properly used in dialog ("Kill them!") and its thoroughly annoying, rather gushing use in narrative (He killed them!). Though perhaps that's just sloppiness after the initial success of the series. And while he has become quite good at descriptive passages, especially those of the sea around the Bahamas (where he obviously has spent some time sailing himself), he also seems too willing to limit most of his principal characters' conversations to the same period slang, used over and over again. Lewrie is brighter than that. (I'm getting awfully tired of "ram-cat" and "caulk" and "putting the leg over" and "buttock-brokering" and "heel-taps" -- that one always in quotes, for some reason.) I don't much care for the smugness of Lambdin's Introductions and Afterwards, either.

Still, it's a good series with good plotting and (mostly) good character development and excellent detail on ship operations and tactics of the period, and I shall certainly keep reading.

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4.0étoiles sur 5 Good fiction with a questionable lead character, Janv. 21 2000
Par John D. Beatty (West Allis, WI USA) - Voir tous mes commentaires
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Lambdin marries Lewrie off, but he still can't keep it in his pants. He covers the period and the action well, but for some reason our Alan is always chasing women for the movie cameras (or is Lambdin writing for them?).

Excellent descriptions of the scandals of the Carribean before the Fench Revolution.

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5.0étoiles sur 5 Historical Novel covering a period not commonly covered.
For those with in interest in tall ships and the sailing navies, this novel covers a time period not well covered by other authors, i.e. Lisez davantage
Publié le Juil 21 1998 par Fred Camfield

4.0étoiles sur 5 Excellent naval historical novel & series - also some others
All of the the Lewrie novels to date have been good, with more realism (and much more sex) than Forester's Hornblower and much freer, less wooden writing than all but the first... Lisez davantage
Publié le Sep 3 1997 par rpe01@aol.com

5.0étoiles sur 5 Part of the best naval historical fiction written to date.
Dewey Lambdin does an excellent job portraying the image of living and working a wooden sailing vessel as well as give a feeling for what it was like in the British navy of the... Lisez davantage
Publié le Déc 26 1996

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