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Title: Jester's Fortune (The Alan Lewrie Naval Adventures Series, No. 8) by Dewey Lambdin ISBN: 1-59013-034-0 Publisher: McBooks Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: A mature Lewrie?
Comment: In this eighth novel, Commander Lewrie, in his sloop-of-war Jester, is attached to a British squadron tasked to the Adriatic to cooperate with incompetent Austrian and uncooperative Venetian allies. In desperation the British are driven to attempt to enlist the assistance of Serbian pirates to harass French trade in naval stores. A quirk of this novel is that Lewrie spends a lot of time on shore or in negotiations, rather than in his usual settings of boudoir or battle. While offered opportunities to play his usual "ram-cat," Lewrie now acts like an "old maid." Maybe it's understandable why this particular volume fell out of print.
On the other hand, an attactive new plot device here is that the Great Enemy, Napoleon, is seen closeup with his admiring staff, plotting the ever-surprising tactics of his rapid conquest, er "liberation," of Italy, in occasional chapters counterpoised to slow Allied expectations or Commander Lewrie all at sea. Also, in one surprising chapter we have no idea what's going on-has the author gone mad?-until the ruse is explained in the next chapter. While the infamous Alan Lewrie contends with the expectable obstructive superior, here this stock character becomes much more understanding and empathetic than usual, to Lewrie's discomfiture. Travel quotations from an ancient Roman author are vaguely relevant. A map of the Adriatic would help visual the movements.
Rating: 2
Summary: Roger's review
Comment: Disappointed with this adventure as felt author used too much padding and not sufficient flow of the story. Although background detail is important I felt the attempts to captivate dialects made the reading very sluggish.
I'm about to start on 'The King's Captain' and hope that this gets back to a good rollicking type yarn.
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Title: A King's Commander by Dewey Lambdin ISBN: 0449000222 Publisher: Fawcett Books Pub. Date: 28 January, 1998 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Sea of Grey: An Alan Lewrie Naval Adventure by Dewey Lambdin ISBN: 0312286856 Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books Pub. Date: 18 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: The French Admiral (The Naval Adventures of Alan Lewrie, No. 2) by Dewey Lambdin ISBN: 1590130219 Publisher: McBooks Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: H.M.S. Cockerel by Dewey Lambdin ISBN: 0449224481 Publisher: Fawcett Books Pub. Date: 29 January, 1997 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: The Gun Ketch by Dewey Lambdin ISBN: 0449224503 Publisher: Fawcett Books Pub. Date: 30 September, 1996 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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