Havoc's Sword: An Alan Lewrie Naval Adventure

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Macmillan, Dec 16, 2004 - Fiction - 384 pages

Dewey Lambdin's lovable but incorrigible rogue, Captain Alan Lewrie, Royal Navy, is back to cut a wide and wicked swatch through the war-torn Caribbean in Havoc's Sword, an entirely new high seas adventure.

It's 1798, and Lewrie and his crew of the Proteus frigate have their work cut out for them. First, he has rashly vowed to uphold a friend's honor in a duel to the death. Second, he faces the horridly unwelcome arrival of HM Government's Foreign Office agents (out to use him as their cat's-paw in impossibly vaunting schemes against the French). And last, he must engineer the showdown with his arch foe and nemesis, the hideous ogre of the French Revolution's Terror, that clever fiend Guillaume Choundas!

We know Lewrie can fight, but can he be a diplomat, too? He must deal with the newly reborn United States Navy, that uneasy, unofficial "ally," and the stunning, life-altering surprise they bring. For good or ill, Lewrie's in the "quag" up to his neck this time. Can sword, pistol, and broadsides avail, or will words, low cunning, and Lewrie's irrepressible wit be the key to his victory and survival, as even the seas cry "Havoc"?

 

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Contents

Section 1
29
Section 2
34
Section 3
45
Section 4
54
Section 5
57
Section 6
65
Section 7
75
Section 8
93
Section 16
190
Section 17
204
Section 18
210
Section 19
220
Section 20
256
Section 21
274
Section 22
288
Section 23
311

Section 9
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Section 10
125
Section 11
134
Section 12
144
Section 13
155
Section 14
164
Section 15
182
Section 24
320
Section 25
330
Section 26
338
Section 27
353
Section 28
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About the author (2004)

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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