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A King's Trade (Alan Lewrie Naval Adventures) [Paperback]

Dewey Lambdin
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  • Paperback: 339 pages
  • Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin; Reprint edition (8 Jan 2008)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0312378645
  • ISBN-13: 978-0312378646
  • Product Dimensions: 22.6 x 15.2 x 2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 316,520 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars To d--- hard to put down! 15 Sep 2009
By RCDG
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That's my Dad's opinion. He loves naval adventures with lots of action, Hornblower, Ramage and now Lewrie. According to him they start slow building up to a climatic battle. I've been rationing them over the year otherwise he would read them all in one sitting.
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4.0 out of 5 stars British Navy from and American writer 23 Mar 2010
By TJ
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I read some Dewey Lambdin some years ago and have only "found" him again. The stories are accurate and have a slightly quirky angle which makes them even more enjoyable than the normal Forrester/O'Brien types. TJ from Wexfords
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5.0 out of 5 stars Best in the series since the French Admiral 28 Dec 2006
By Edward - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Hardcover
The French Admiral (2nd book) will probably always be the best book in this series, with the opener `The Kings Coat' a close second. The books that followed were readable but slowly deteriorated until it hit rock bottom with the 2 HMS Jester books (7 & 8 I think).

A King's Trade however has totally rekindled my passion for this series and left me on a high waiting for the 12th book. It is great to know that we are only in the year 1800 and have 15 years left of war/peace for Lambdin to write Lewrie into.

I do not understand a previous reviewers comments about the story not being fully developed and being a prelude to the next novel. The book does have an apt ending and is book 11 in a long series, of course there is a prelude to the next novel. Far from feeling let down, I believe this to be Lambdin best work since the French Admiral. Great writing, good flow of the story and a battle in the end.
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3.0 out of 5 stars A Less Lurid Lewry 9 Jan 2007
By Hans Halberstadt - Published on Amazon.com
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Ever since the first of this series came out, with our lad bedding his half sister and getting caught in the proverbial act on page one, he's been called Alan Lurid in our household, and for good reason -- the earlier books were a real romp in misbehaviour, Royal Navy style. Alan boarded and vanquished at least as many young maidens -- and former-maidens -- as enemy ships in these earlier books and you could count on all sorts of action in every title. Then he hooked up with this Caroline character, married her, and his love life pretty much went to hell...kids, house payment, a vast estate to manage, crabby neighbors, and a wife who turned into something of a shrew just because she discovered he's had a few girls in a few ports -- what was she expecting? Well, along comes this latest book and I am hoping he'll recruit a new mistress or two, but no -- Lewrie flirts a bit with an actress in this story but her virtue (if any) remains as pure at the end (so to speak) as when he met her -- no bodices ripped, no panting orgies on this literary cruise. Caroline has him throughly intimidated and I almost expected him to go into counseling. But don't let me talk you out of reading this title -- it's still fun. And wouldn't the sailors of two hundred years ago smile if they could know that, here in the Twenty-First Century that we'd be fascinated with their lives and times?
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4.0 out of 5 stars "Mine arse on a band box!" 6 Dec 2006
By J. Webster - Published on Amazon.com
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Would not go to work this morning without turning the last page and then required several hankies and some Visine to do so. 4 out of 5? Well, there must be something better and I'll be ready when I discover it. Lambdin again provides rollicking entertainment, and is a fount of archaic blasphemies and curses. This work is well worth the price and the exciting ride. Dosvadanya
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