The Invasion Year

Written by Dewey Lambdin

Narrated by John Lee

For a fellow like Captain Alan Lewrie, Royal Navy, who despises the French worse than the Devil hates Holy Water, it's hellish-hard to gain a reputation for saving them, not once but twice, when the French refugees from Haiti surrender to England rather than the vengeful ex-slave armies in November of 1803!

After that, it could be "all claret and cruising" in the Caribbean, but for a home-bound sugar convoy, one so frustrating as to make even the happy-go-lucky Alan Lewrie tear his hair out, kick furniture, and curse like . . . well, like a sailor!

Back in England for the first time in two years, there are honors from the Crown for gallant service . . . a lot more than he expected from King George III, who was having a bad morning, then a chance to move in Society after an introduction to an intriguing daughter of a peer. But then come secret orders to experiment with several types of "infernal engines of war," which might delay or postpone the dreaded cross-Channel invasion by Napoleon Bonaparte, his huge army, and his thousands of invasion craft. For the rest of 1804, Alan Lewrie and his crew of the Reliant frigate will deal with things more dangerous to them than they may prove to be to the French!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
• Release date: Dec 31, 2019
• ISBN: 9781515949220

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 Invasion Year

[dwwilkin_1 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

The tales of Ram Cat Lewrie continue and with the recent preceding novels I have gotten used to the format of learning more of the era of the early 1800s than watching Lewrie have his career at sea explored. The mainstay of this type of fiction is to generally have few reports of what happens ashore and more at what happens at sea, but now in the career of Lewrie, who for a few pages has a ship seconded to his command, we learn of what affects his career with court intrigue and affects his life ashore. We then see quickly again how he is not yet destined for hanging his broad pendant. But as so few of those he meets senior to him have the fighting spirit, or sea skill, if not the maths, for command, it surely will come.If you like your Age of Sail series, this is one worth a read. It seems to have tamed a bit as the years have gone by, but then Lambdin and Lewrie both are now examples of middle age.