Brewer and the Barbary Pirates
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Brewer and the Barbary Pirates
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Narrated by:
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Nigel Peever
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By:
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James Keffer
It is said that a man is grown by his past, and so it was with William Brewer. Before he took command of HMS Defiant in a hurricane and before he hunted pirates in HMS Revenge, Brewer endured a crucible of fire that molded him into the legend he became.
Fresh from the tutelage of Napoleon Bonaparte on St. Helena, Brewer signs on for a cruise under Captain Bush in HMS Lydia to the Mediterranean to battle the Barbary Pirates. Here, Brewer learns to fight, but he also learns what it means to command men in battle and what it takes to order men to their deaths.
Their enemy is a Scottish renegade who is responsible for the deaths of dozens of his fellow sailors over the years and the selling of hundreds of Europeans into African slavery. Along the way, Brewer is introduced to new heroes and new devils. He also receives sage advice from no less than the Duke of Wellington himself. In the end, Brewer has to use all he’s learned - not to mention going beyond all that - to save HMS Lydia from total destruction at the hands of pirates.
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I left off this series, despite listening to all the genre because I thought it was a radio play, which ruins a book (I have sufficient imagination, and anyway description is part of the art of writing). The noises are distracting and annoying...do we really need to hear guls and chair scrapping?....but in the end you get used to them.
The book is a bit warm and sweet, lacking realism; the plot is perhaps simple, but a good story and I liked it. It is not exactly Dewey Lamdin or other great writers of this genre. But entertaining anyway. From a 'history' perspective the later time period is of course more novel; not so common.
I like the narrator he is clear and has good range... probably why I thought it was a play. Again Christian Rodska is a hard man to live up to.
All in all worth a listen if you like this sort of stuff.
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Brilliant
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Nigel Peever's narration is superb with even more character voices than ever before and through his careful use of sound effects and you'll find yourself immersed in the heat of a battle before you realise. I only wish more audiobooks were of this high standard.
Brewer, The Early Years
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superb story
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