King, Ship, and Sword An Alan Lewrie Naval Adventure
, by Lambdin, DeweyNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780312668198 | 0312668198
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 1/4/2011
December, 1801. The Peace of Amiens ends the long war with Napoleon Bonaparte's France, but Captain Alan Lewrie, Royal Navy, is appalled by its consequences. What is a dashing and successful frigate captain to dowith himself ashore on half-pay? And wherewill Lewrie twiddle his thumbs until the war begins again, as he's sure it will? Rejoin his wife and in-laws who (mostly) despise him like the Devil hates Holy Water, on his rented farm in Surrey? Peace and domesticity are hellish hard on the rakehells! Yet by the spring of 1802, Lewrie and his Caroline have somewhatreconciled and are off to make a go of a second honeymoonin Paris, France, of all places! There, Lewrie finds himself rubbing shoulders with soldiers, spies, and even First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte himself. When Lewrie can't helpspurring Napoleon into a "kick-furniture" rage, he and Caroline must flee for their lives. When war breaks out again in May of 1803, Lewrie has fresh orders, a new frigate, and a chance to punish and pursue the French, but it's no longer for duty or king and countrynow it's personal!