The Baltic Gambit
A Fiction, Historical book. I read the entire series largely back-to-back (my local public library is well-stocked)....
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 Bonaparte’s delight, to deny Great Britain their vital exports, even if it means war. England will need all her experienced sea dogs, but … even Alan Lewrie? Ultimately Lewis is acquitted, but he’s also ignored by the Navy, so it’s half-pay on “civvy street” for him, and with idle time on his mischievous hands, Lewrie is sure to get himself in trouble---again!---especially if there are young women and his wastrel public school friends involved…and they are! A brawl in a Panton Saint brothel, a drunk, infatuated young Russian count, precede...
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- Pages: 368 pages
- ISBN: 9780312348069 / 312348061
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I read the entire series largely back-to-back (my local public library is well-stocked). One of the great things about this series is that we get to watch Alan Lewrie, the main character, grow up from a callow, self-indulgent teenager to a mature, thoughtful, and responsible adult. This is the 15th book in the Alan Lewrie series of naval adventures written by Dewey Lambdin, and it is the first that I have rated less than five stars. Generally this is because this is the first novel that has not had a lot of action, is rather slow at times. The author appears to be using this novel as a bridge between those that... Sailing warship adventure readers of Kent and Lambdin
