Sea of Grey
Alan Lewrie: Book #10
- By: Dewey Lambdin
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 13 hours 59 minutes
Description
Captain Alan Lewrie returns for his tenth roaring adventure on the high seas. This time, it's off to a failing British intervention on the ultra-rich French colony of Saint Domingue, wracked by an utterly cruel and bloodthirsty slave rebellion led by Toussaint L'Ouverture, the future father of Haitian independence. Beset and distracted though he might be, it will take all of Lewrie's pluck, daring, skill, and his usual tongue-in-cheek deviousness, to navigate all the perils in a sea of grey.
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Alan Lewrie Series
King's Captain
By: Dewey Lambdin
Narrated by: John Lee
Length: 12 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
Following in the footsteps of Horatio Hornblower and Jack Aubrey, whose ripping adventures capture thousands of new fans each year, comes the heir apparent to the mantle of Forester and O'Brian: Dewey Lambdin and his acclaimed Alan Lewrie series. In King's Captain, Alan Lewrie is promoted for his quick action in the Battle of Cape St. Vincent.... Read more »
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Sea of Grey
By: Dewey Lambdin
Narrated by: John Lee
Length: 13 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
Captain Alan Lewrie returns for his tenth roaring adventure on the high seas. This time, it's off to a failing British intervention on the ultra-rich French colony of Saint Domingue, wracked by an utterly cruel and bloodthirsty slave rebellion led by Toussaint L'Ouverture, the future father of Haitian independence. Beset and distracted though he... Read more »
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The Captain's Vengeance
By: Dewey Lambdin
Narrated by: John Lee
Length: 13 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
It is early February, 1799, a year of war.
Sailing in the Caribbean, Captain Alan Lewrie, Royal Navy, is once again pursuing a chimera. A rich French prize ship he'd left at anchor at Dominica has gone missing, along with six of his sailors.
What starts as a straightforward search for it, and them, from Hispaniola to Barbados, far down the... Read more »
A King's Trade
By: Dewey Lambdin
Narrated by: John Lee
Length: 14 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
After Yellow Fever decimated the crew of Alan Lewrie's HMS Proteus, it had seemed like a knacky idea to abscond with a dozen slaves from a Jamaican plantation to help man his frigate. But two years later, Lewrie is now suspected of the deed. Slave-stealing is a hanging offense, and suddenly his neck is at risk of a fatal stretching. Once Lewrie... Read more »
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Troubled Waters
By: Dewey Lambdin
Narrated by: John Lee
Length: 12 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
It is the spring of 1800. Captain Alan Lewrie, fresh from victory in the South Atlantic, is back in England and fitting out his new frigate, the HMS Savage. But true to fashion, Lewrie can't stay ashore too long without trouble arising. A Jamaican court has tried him in absentia and sentenced him to hang for the theft of a dozen black slaves.... Read more »
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The Baltic Gambit
By: Dewey Lambdin
Narrated by: John Lee
Length: 12 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
January 1801, and Captain Alan Lewrie, RN, known as "St. Alan the Liberator" for freeing (stealing!) a dozen black slaves on Jamaica to man his frigate years before, is at last being brought to trial for it, with his life on the line. At the same time, Russia, Sweden, Denmark, and Prussia are forming a League of Armed Neutrality, to Napoleon... Read more »
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King, Ship, and Sword
By: Dewey Lambdin
Narrated by: John Lee
Length: 13 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
December 1801. The Peace of Amiens end the long war with Napoleon Bonaparte's France, but Captain Alan Lewrie, Royal Navy, is appalled by its consequences. First, he's been in the Navy since 1780 (most unwillingly, most of the time!) and at sea for the better part of nine years, since 1793, so what is a dashing and successful frigate captain to... Read more »
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The Invasion Year
By: Dewey Lambdin
Narrated by: John Lee
Length: 13 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
For a fellow like Captain Alan Lewrie, Royal Navy, who despises the French worse than the Devil hates Holy Water, it's hellish-hard to gain a reputation for saving them, not once but twice, when the French refugees from Haiti surrender to England rather than the vengeful ex-slave armies in November of 1803! After that, it could be "all claret... Read more »
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Reefs and Shoals
By: Dewey Lambdin
Narrated by: John Lee
Length: 12 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
Pity poor Captain Alan Lewrie, Royal Navy! He's been wind-muzzled for weeks in Portsmouth, snugly tucked into a warm shore bed with lovely, and loving, Lydia Stangbourne, a Viscount's daughter, and beginning to enjoy indulging his idle streak, when Admiralty tears Lewrie away and order him to the Bahamas, into the teeth of ferocious winter... Read more »
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Hostile Shores
By: Dewey Lambdin
Narrated by: John Lee
Length: 12 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
In 1805, with news of Admiral Nelson's death fresh on his mind, Captain Lewrie's HMS Reliant joins up in the voyage that will culminate in the Battle of Cape Town, in which the British wrested control of South Africa from the Dutch. In the wake of that victory, Lewrie heads west to South America, where Britain's attacks on Buenos Aires and other... Read more »
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The King’s Marauder
By: Dewey Lambdin
Narrated by: John Lee
Length: 12 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
The year 1807 starts out badly for Captain Alan Lewrie, Royal Navy. In The King's Marauder, his frigate HMS Reliant has a new captain, he's living at his father's estate at Anglesgreen, among spiteful neighbors and family, and he's recovering from a wound suffered in the South Atlantic. At last, there's a bright spot. When fit, Admiralty awards... Read more »
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Kings and Emperors
By: Dewey Lambdin
Narrated by: John Lee
Length: 12 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
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... Read more »
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A Hard, Cruel Shore
By: Dewey Lambdin
Narrated by: John Lee
Length: 12 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
The year 1809 starts out badly for Captain Alan Lewrie, Royal Navy, and his ship, HMS Sapphire. They've extracted the sick, cold survivors of Sir John Moore's army from disaster at Corunna, got hit by lightning while escorting the army to England, and suffered a shattered mainmast which may end Lewrie's active commission if a replacement can't... Read more »
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A Fine Retribution
By: Dewey Lambdin
Narrated by: John Lee
Length: 13 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
Captain Alan Lewrie and his small squadron defeat four French frigates off northern Spain, winning honor, glory, and renown. So, why is such a successful captain suddenly without a ship, or another active commission? Why do rumors swirl that jealous foes' powerful patrons are blighting his career? Months on end ashore, even in entertaining... Read more »
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An Onshore Storm
By: Dewey Lambdin
Narrated by: John Lee
Length: 12 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
Three mismatched troop transports, lots of twenty-nine-foot barges, and an under-strength regiment of foot—a waste of Royal Navy money, a doomed experiment, or a new way to bedevil Napoleon's army in Italy? Either way, it's Capt. Sir Alan Lewrie's idea, and it seems to be working, with successful raids all along the coast of Calabria. But it... Read more »
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Much Ado About Lewrie
By: Dewey Lambdin
Length: 11 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
The twenty-fifth title in Dewey Lambdin's beloved series of historical naval adventure.
Lewrie loses his ship and his command when he receives news that Vigilance must return to England to be decommissioned and turned over to the dockyards for a complete refit. Lewrie is grounded, put on half-pay, and his crew disperses to look for new... Read more »