Product Description

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #229245 in Books
• Published on: 2003-12-01
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 400 pages

From Publishers Weekly
The tenth in the series of Alan Lewrie nautical adventures by Dewey Lambdin, Sea of Grey finds the swashbucklin', wisecrackin' 18th-century British naval officer who habitually drops his gs aiding the French in their attempts to suppress rebellion in the colony of Saint Domingue. Lewrie battles Toussaint L'Ouverture between trysts with a flock of breathless international beauties ("I have the basin... you wish me to sponge you? You are tres hot? I cool you?"). The lively pace and white-knuckle battle scenes should make this another winner with Lambdin's fans.
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From AudioFile
John Lee reads this seafaring tale in a crisp British accent, with a hint of hysteria that fits the central character well. In his tenth outing, Captain Alan Lewrie sails in the West Indies, where a bloody slave rebellion against the Colonialists is taking place. In interludes and flashbacks we perceive that Lewrie is a philandering and foulmouthed cad, besides being a skilled naval officer, and that during a recent stay in England his wife has taken exception to his marital infidelity. Sea and land battles occur, with the story meandering here and there without much point. D.A.W. © AudioFile 2004, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine

About the Author
Dewey Lambdin is the author of nine previous Alan Lewrie novels and an omnibus volume, For King and Country. 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, Wind Dancer. He makes his home in Nashville, Tennessee, but would much prefer Margaritaville or Murrell's Inlet.

Customer Reviews

A Wonderful Read!
I love these books! Okay, the guy is quite the rake-hell--not your standard hero. That's part of the charm. He is self-serving but decent. He's beset with all kinds of difficulties and has an uncanny knack for turning trouble into luck. His character flaws make him all the more believable and engaging. Lewry's reflections are a hoot. Lambdin's nautical information and sailing descriptions are to my mind, peerless in the nautical adventure series world. Lambdin does his homework.

The series is a most unpretentious romp, full of great information on the era and nautical information. I look forward to the next installment!

Once promising; now disappointing
I've read now all but one of the series of Alan Lewrie naval adventures and I must say that what started out as a most promising set of novels has gone sour. The early works saw Lewrie as the young rascal, adventurous, but with a sometimes troubling morality. Now, however, he has evolved into nothing more than a middle-aged ship's captain befuddled with marital problems due to his past sexual escapades. In point of fact, nothing much really happens in this book. The author has seen fit to follow Lewrie's career chronologically, so this tale is set during a period after the Noire mutiny when, well, not much of anthing was going on in the British navy. I once again found myself constantly scimming tens of pages in order to locate a little action. King's Captain (the book before this) is a much more interesting work as it involves Lewrie's psychological efforts to thwart mutiny. This novel is just boring. If you want to enjoy Alan Lewrie at his best--read the early Lambdin novels and forget these later efforts. Remember, there is always O'Brien's Jack Aubrey and Forester's Horation Hornblower.

Good fodder till the next Nelson novel.
I am in some agreement with the fellow who wrote that you needed to read the earlier books in this series to understand everything that was going on because I didn't. . . and I didn't. That said, I still enjoyed this pretty good actioner, though I think there have probably been enough British naval heros in contemporary literature. This one has the distinction of being more of a rogue than some, so he's interesting in a Flashman sort of way. I guess as an American I'm pretty fond of James L. Nelson, whose Isaac Biddlecomb is the quintessential reluctant warrior/Yankee capitalist and whose stories celebrate a Navy other than the British Royal (and underdogs to boot). This was a good fast read, but just cannon fodder till the next Nelson book is out. I will definitely go back, though, and read the rest of this series.