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Captain Alan Lewrie returns for his tenth roaring adventure on the high seas. This time, it's off to a failing British intervention on the ultra-rich French colony of Saint Domingue, wracked by an utterly cruel and bloodthirsty slave rebellion led by Toussaint L'Ouverture, the future father of Haitian independence. Beset and distracted though he might be, it will take all of Lewrie's pluck, daring, skill, and his usual tongue-in-cheek deviousness, to navigate all the perils in a sea of grey.
Author Notes
Dewey Lambdin was born in 1945. He received a degree in film and television production from Montana State University in 1969. He worked for local television stations and in advertising. After being laid off, he started writing fiction. His first novel, The King's Coat, was published in 1989. He is the author of the Alan Lewrie Naval Adventures series and What Lies Buried: A Novel of Old Cape Fear.
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Reviews (2)
Publisher's Weekly Review
The tenth in the series of Alan Lewrie nautical adventures by Dewey Lambdin, Sea of Grey finds the swashbucklin', wisecrackin' 18th-century British naval officer who habitually drops his gs aiding the French in their attempts to suppress rebellion in the colony of Saint Domingue. Lewrie battles Toussaint L'Ouverture between trysts with a flock of breathless international beauties ("I have the basin... you wish me to sponge you? You are tres hot? I cool you?"). The lively pace and white-knuckle battle scenes should make this another winner with Lambdin's fans. (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Kirkus Review
Brilliantly styled tenth entry in the Alan Lewrie British naval series, set in the Napoleonic era (King's Captain, 2000) and written by an American. This outing matches the darkness of Lambkin's second installment in the series, The French Admiral (2000), which had Lewrie looking at the American Revolution through British spyglasses, fighting hopelessly on land alongside colonial loyalists at Yorktown, and facing atrocities everywhere. Series fans well remember Lewrie's dissolute father, rakehell Major-General Sir Hugo St. George Willoughby, who screwed Lewrie out of his maternal inheritance and signed him over for life service in the Royal Navy at age 15, to rid himself of the lad and enjoy his late wife's money-though Lewrie later regained it. So it's shocking to see him out carousing on a day-and-night -long drinking ramble through London's stews and gaming halls with the shamelessly lecherous and acidly jolly father. Now commanding the frigate Proteus , Lewrie finds himself under canvas for the Caribbean and Haiti and the blood-bedewed Black rebellion led by Toussaint L'Ouverture, there to match wits with other privateers off St. Domingue. His crew, racked by Yellow Jack and dying in droves, must be replaced by Black hands, slaves who've never worn shoes or sailing dress, or worked beside or eaten with whites. Sizzlingly tropical and stuffed to the beams with salty parlance.
