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Brewer's Private War

By: James Keffer
Narrated by: Jack Wynters
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A chance meeting in a tavern on Martinique brings a man from Brewer's past back into his life. Brewer discovers this man — a mentor of his when he was a raw midshipman — has turned to piracy, and Brewer is determined to track him down and end his reign of terror over British shipping in the Caribbean. Captain Brewer soon discovers that still waters run deep when he is kidnapped by his former mentor and warned to stop while he still can. With the help of the US Navy, Brewer finds his quarry in the Bahamas, only to chase him to Washington City and find himself staring down the wrong end of a pirate's pistol!

©2023 James Keffer (P)2025 James Keffer Genre Fiction Military Thriller & Suspense War & Military Caribbean
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The story is enjoyable but was let down by the choice of narrator. Nigel Peever who has narrated all the remainder of the novels had the ability to create a variety voices to give each character their own personality.

Sadly Jack Wynters doesn’t paint the same visual picture which I experienced from the other novels in the series.

No Nigel Peever

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I'm a fan of the series and the author but the change of narrator is criminal. accents all over the place and the pace is woeful. couldn't finish it

Enjoyable story Dreadful Narrator

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This is an early revenge story so it must be chronologically before Portuguese gold and after Brewers revenge.

The story is good.

The narration was off. Especially after the high standard set by Nigel Peevers. Who like or not is objectively good. Wynter has a nice voice and can read...but four things annoyed me.

a) the characters had the wrong accents. e.g. His Cornish coxswain had a Scottish accent. I don't know if this was recorded ages ago, before the other books came out but is it too much to ask that the narrator reads the a previous book, or even the whole book.

b) Most of the characters had the same accent, which was generally pretty gormless, not doing justice to any of the characters really. Alfred is a key example here. I think if you read even this book and realised he was super accomplished you would make him sound like a dim sniveling retch.

c) virtually all of them had 'errs' introduced in their speech. Okay maybe as a device, but too many and for most characters. It sounds like reading hesitation in the end. I haven't had sight of the text, but I'm pretty sure they wouldn't be in it.

d) And Wynters has this habit of pausing before the last two or three words in each sentence. It's almost like he was using an auto prompt that had a maximum sentence length. So he paused and then adds the last few words of the sentence.

Anyway I can't help thinking it wasn't the best performance. Other books narrated by a narrator of the same name are better read. Is this actually him? So something is off here. I wonder if this is some old recording dusted off.

I think they need to rethink this, or at least not a thing to come. It was of a professional standard I expect if I am paying for it.

book 4

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