The French Admiral

By Dewey Lambdin

Alan Lewrie is a scandalous young rake whose amorous adventures ashore lead to his being shipped off to the Navy. Lewrie finds that he is a born sailor, although life at sea is a stark contrast to the London social whirl to which he had become accustomed. As his career advances, he finds the life of a naval officer suits him.

• Language: English
• Publisher: McBooks Press
• Release date: Apr 1, 2002
• ISBN: 9781590133279

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 French Admiral

[msaucier818 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

An entertaining book to finish the year on. This book follows Alan Lewrie into the Chesapeake Bay and the climactic battle at Yorktown at the end of the American Revolution. I enjoyed the maturation of Lewrie and the historical setting created by Lambdin. I thought there were too many long stretches of conversations between characters that could have been a bit shorter, but overall I was happy with the read and as a person who likes to read about the Age of Sail, I will continue with this series.

[docwood-1 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Laugh-out-loud humor, gasp-and-cover-your-mouth horror, and long passages of technical sailing lingo that periodically threaten to overwhelm the story.

[civilwarwriter · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Laugh-out-loud humor, gasp-and-cover-your-mouth horror, and long passages of technical sailing lingo that periodically threaten to overwhelm the story.