. He makes his home in Nashville, Tennessee, but would much prefer Margaritaville or Murrells Inlet. A member of the U.S. DEWEY LAMBDIN is the author of twenty-one previous Alan Lewrie novels. Naval Institute and a Friend of the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, Eng
| Title | : | A Hard, Cruel Shore: An Alan Lewrie Naval Adventure (Alan Lewrie Naval Adventures) |
| Author | : | Dewey Lambdin |
| Rating | : | 4.71 (581 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1250030099 |
| Format Type | : | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | : | 352Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-11-13 |
| Language | : | English |
. He makes his home in Nashville, Tennessee, but would much prefer Margaritaville or Murrells Inlet. A member of the U.S. DEWEY LAMBDIN is the author of twenty-one previous Alan Lewrie novels. Naval Institute and a Friend of the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, England, he spends his free time working and sailing
Forester hull-down in an ocean of words and is closing on Patrick O’Brian as the most prolific historical novelist to celebrate a Royal Navy mariner during the age of sail.” ---
The Washington Times “Lambdin succeeds with high-seas action, bravado, and Lewrie’s characteristic antics, putting himself in good company with Julian Stockwin and Seth Hunter as worthy successors to the popular eighteenth- and nineteenth-century naval adventures of Forester, Kent, and Pope. S. Lewrie is a delightfully randy and irreverent character, the perfect man to walk the quarterdeck of a Royal Navy frigate.”---
Publishers Weekly (starred review) “A hugely entertaining naval adventure (á la Forester and O’Brian) with a different kind of protagonist. Praise for the Alan Lewrie Series“Stunning naval adventure, reeking of powder
Easily.”---
The New York Times Book ReviewThe year 1809 starts out badly for Captain Alan Lewrie, Royal Navy, and his ship, HMS
Sapphire. Admiralty needs troopships, not slow, old Fourth Rate two-deckers, so Lewrie must beg, borrow, steal, and gild the facts most glibly if he wishes to keep her and her skilled crew together.Just when he imagines he’s succeeded, new orders come appointing him a Commodore over a wee squadron assigned to prey upon French seaborne supply convoys off the treacherous north coast of Spain, better known as the Costa da Morte, the Coast of Death, where the sea may be more dangerous to him and his ships than the French Navy! Basing out of newly won Lisbon, where Lewrie hopes his mistress from Gibraltar, Maddalena Covilhá, might move, he’s sure of on
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