title: King, Ship, and Sword: An Alan Lewrie Naval Adventure (Alan Lewrie Naval Adventures)
author:  Dewey Lambdin 
description: Alan Lewrie, intrepid sailor and charming scoundrel, is back in Lambdin's superb 16th Royal Navy adventure. Lewrie is an endearing characterhero, philanderer, smuggler, spy: a courageous naval officer unencumbered by high morals or indecisionand during the brief peace between England and France in 1801, while on a reconciliation vacation to Paris with his wife, Lewrie encounters old enemies and former lovers, all seeking revenge for past injuries and insults. A botched audience with Napoleon Bonaparte sets assassins on Lewrie's trail, and after they kill someone close to Lewrie, he vows bloody revenge. When war resumes in 1803, he is given command of a heavily armed frigate and another chance to go to sea and kill Frenchmen. The harrowing sea adventures that follow take Lewrie and his crew from France to Louisiana and put Lewrie's seamanship and quick thinking to the test. As expected, Lambdin leaves just enough loose ends in this swashbuckler to ensure there will be another sequel of intrigue and cannonballs. <i>(Mar.)</i> <br />Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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  King, Ship, and Sword
  
  An Alan Lewrie Naval Adventure
  
  Dewey Lambdin
  
  Also by Dewey Lambdin
  
  The King's Coat
  
  The French Admiral
  
  The King's Commission
  
  The King's Privateer
  
  The Gun Ketch
  
  H.M.S. Cockerel
  
  A King's Commander
  
  Jester's Fortune
  
  King's Captain
  
  Sea of Grey
  
  Havoc's Sword
  
  The Captain's Vengeance
  
  A King's Trade
  
  Troubled Waters
  
  The Baltic Gambit
  
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  Therefore I cast mee by a little writing
  
  To shewe at eye this conclusion,
  
  For conscience and for mine acquiting
  
  Against God and ageyne abusion,
  
  And Cowardise, and to our enimies confusion.
  
  For foure things our Noble sheweth to mee,
  
  King, Ship, and Swerd, and power of the Sea.
  
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  HAKLUYT'S VOYAGES
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  PROLOGUE
  
  At nobis, Pax alma, veni spicamque teneto,
  
  profluat et pomis candidus ante sinus.
  
  
  Then come to us, gracious Peace; grasp the