A Kings Trade, Dewey Lambdin
A Kings Trade, Dewey Lambdin
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A King's Trade

Author: Dewey Lambdin

Narrator: John Lee

Unabridged: 14 hr 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 01/31/2017


Synopsis

After Yellow Fever decimated the crew of Alan Lewrie's HMS Proteus, it had seemed like a knacky idea to abscond with a dozen slaves from a Jamaican plantation to help man his frigate. But two years later, Lewrie is now suspected of the deed. Slave-stealing is a hanging offense, and suddenly his neck is at risk of a fatal stretching.

Once Lewrie has escaped, the master Foreign Office spy, Zachariah Twigg, arranges for a long voyage even further out of the law's reach, to Cape Town and India, as escort to an East India Company convoy. At the Cape of Good Hope a British circus and theatrical troupe also joins the party, teeming with tempting female acrobats, nubile bareback riders, and alluring "actresses" like the seductive but deadly archer Eudoxia Durschenko.

It will take all Lewrie's shrewd guile, wit, and steely self-control to worm his way out of trouble, and keep his breeches chastely buttoned to avoid even more troubles . . . or will he?

About Dewey Lambdin

Dewey Lambdin is the author of the Alan Lewrie series. A member of the US Naval Institute and a Friend of the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, England, he spends his free time working and sailing. (He has been a sailor since 1976.) He makes his home in Nashville, Tennessee, but would much prefer Margaritaville or Murrells Inlet.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Sunhawk on February 10, 2020

Lambkin does it again. I find these books captivating, entertaining ...instructive (a period of history I'm not much familiar with, and a way of living that's so hard to imagination a mere 200 years later). In particular, I like Lambkin's insight into the self-doubts of our gallant captain, who is c......more

Goodreads review by Rich on February 24, 2021

3.75 on this review, with the benefit of the doubt going to the author. I can honestly say "Mine arse on a band-box!" five times before the book is halfway compete is at least four times too many. Furthermore, the first 220 pages literally went nowhere, The entire book felt like a filler in the seri......more

Goodreads review by Justin on January 06, 2024

Alan Lewrie is back in England after his cruise in the Caribbean. He is in hot water and despite his reputation, William Wilberforce and his Reformers want to use him as a poster boy for anti-slavery. The Reformers and his patrons admire Lewrie for his courage, cunning, and the results even as they......more

Goodreads review by Alger on August 08, 2017

An unlikely story shot through with by-the-numbers writing. Entertaining, but not much fun. The entire novel is a setup for the final chapters, which has a fizzling payoff. Lewrie is a weak character whose actions are almost always dictated from without, and his main attributes are a ridiculous good......more

Goodreads review by Tim on October 17, 2018

This book brings some insight into the history of slavery in the UK and the States. It also gives a curious look at the manner in which the writer believes that "interest" played a role in an officers "fortunes". It doesn't seem likely that so many people would go so far simply to benefit someone th......more