The King's Marauder

Written by Dewey Lambdin

Narrated by John Lee

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 him a new commission; not a frigate but a clumsy, slow two-decker fourth-rate fifty. Are his frigate days over for good?

Lewrie's ordered to Gibraltar, but Foreign Office Secret Branch's spies and manipulators have use for him, again! HMS Sapphire is the wrong ship for the task, raising chaos and mayhem along the Spanish coasts, and servicing agents and informers. And, what he's ordered to do needs soldiers, landing craft, and a transport ship, all of which he doesn't have, and must find a way to finagle it all.

He could beg off and say that it's asking too much, but . . . Alan Lewrie is not a man to admit failure and defeat, and his quest might prove the most daunting of his long naval career.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
• Release date: Mar 24, 2020
• ISBN: 9781515949275

Dewey Lambdin

Dewey Lambdin is the author of the Alan Lewrie novels. A member of the U.S. Naval Institute and a Friend of the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, England, he spends his free time working and sailing on a rather tatty old sloop. He makes his home in Nashville, Tennessee.

Reviews for The King's Marauder

[dwwilkin_1 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

This is the 20th adventure of Ram Cat Lewrie. We have a few action scenes, and some off camera because our hero has been at his trade for awhile and like most Captains who become Senior, have to take note of their own capabilities as their bodies age as well as the need for younger men to show their capabilities and advance. Lewrie must begin to learn what it is like to send the away team in, whilst he continues to command from the ship.Still, we see some of Lewrie's life ashore, and how now he has an entire entourage of ship's people to accompany him about. He is a successful Captain. And like many of the time, he was in and out of ships, and there was time in between. Many other writers of this genre would never comment on the time between, but Lambdin takes extra care to do so and to create a plausible reason for Lewrie to be leading a ship on adventure during the time of the blockade of France and Spain. A time when their might be no adventure, though Hornblower did find himself in one escaping from a French prison.All in all, a pretty good continuation of the series and worthy of its being reread when the entire series is tackled once more.

[jamespurcell · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Another good entry in an excellent series. Alan Lewrie recovers from his wound, loses his beloved frigate and his current love interest buyt gains the command of a fifty gun warship. Off to Gibraltar on an independent cruise to work for his least favorite government group, supporting spies and fomenting revolution. He succeeds admirably, sinking French and Spanish ships while rescuing a lovely Portuguese paramour from an ungrateful army officer. Lewrie is older, wiser but still the "Ramcat " on sea and land.