Troubled Waters

✍ Scribed by Dewey Lambdin

• Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books
• Year: 1993;2009
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 364 KB
• Edition: 1st St. Martin's Griffin ed
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

The fourteenth tale in Dewey Lambdin�s classic naval adventure series

Spring of 1800, and Captain Alan Lewrie, fresh from victory in the South Atlantic, is reckoned a hero on a par with Nelson in all the papers. Back in England, he�s fitting out his new frigate, HMS Savage, the fruits of that victory, the largest and best-armed frigate he�s ever commanded. But you can�t leave Lewrie ashore too long without trouble arising.

A Jamaica court has tried him in absentia and sentenced him to hang for the theft of a dozen Black slaves to man his old ship, HMS Proteus. A crime, or was it liberation, as his London barrister argues? The vengeful slaveowner, Hugh Beauman, has come to London to seek Lewrie�s end . . . with or without the majesty of the Law!

Then there�s the matter of those anonymous letters sent to his wife, Caroline, portraying him as a faithless rakehell and serving up the most florid lies . . . along with some unfortunately florid truths. Lewrie appeals to the �retired� Foreign Office spy, Zachariah Twigg, to �smoak out� the hand that guides the poison pen, even while wondering why Twigg seems so eager to help his legal case, of a sudden. Is the devious old devil ready to sacrifice him for some motive of his own?

A fortunate legal ruling, which only delays the matter of Lewrie�s utter ruin, leaves him free to take Savage to sea upon the King�s business, to join the close blockade of the Gironde River in Sou�west France, and plug the threat of enemy warships, privateers, and neutrals smuggling goods in and out of Bordeaux. It could be a dull and plodding dreariness, but . . . a bored Captain Alan Lewrie, safe in his post for the moment, can be a dangerous fellow to his country�s foes. If only to relieve the tedium!

Library : General
Universes : Alan Lewrie Naval [14]
Formats : EPUB
ISBN : 9780312539375