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The King's Coat

By: Dewey Lambdin
Narrated by: John Lee
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 The very first Alan Lewrie naval adventure in this classic series is now back in print!

1780: Seventeen-year-old Alan Lewrie is a brash, rebellious young libertine. So much so that his callous father believes a bit of navy discipline will turn the boy around. Fresh aboard the tall-masted Ariadne, Midshipman Lewrie heads for the war-torn Americas, finding--rather unexpectedly--that he is a born sailor, equally at home with the randy pleasures of the port and the raging battles on the high seas. But in a hail of cannonballs comes a bawdy surprise. . . .©1998 Dewey Lambdin; (P)2010 Random House
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I enjoyed the story line but the narrator did not understand not understand nautical pronounciation

A fast moving tale.

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Really enjoyed this book great story great narrator. Looking forward to the next book in the series

Fantastic

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I stumbled across this series after finishing the full Aubrey/Maturin 'Master and Commander' series by Patrick O'Brian, and a flirtation with Hornblower. Whilst nothing can knock those books off the top, this first Lewrie novel is a fantastic read. Significantly more courting than you'd find in a traditional English novel but very contemporary!

An excellent homage to Aubrey and Hornblower

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Highly entertaining. Great narration of a complex and conflicted character. I also hope the subsequent books are also recoded.

Cross between Flashman & Hornblower

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Not as good as Bolitho or Ramage, in my opinion but what has spoiled it for me above all else is that, being an inveterate 'start to finish' reader, I suddenly find after completing book 8 of 26 that there are no more available.

With all 8 books, it's difficult to know at times whether it's erotica or naval history but I've ploughed through them nevertheless although it has been hard going at times.

This is an incomplete series.

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