Sea of Gray/ Alan Lewrie, Ebook 10 – Free Full Audiobook
Sea of Gray is the tenth literary fiction ebook within the Alan Lewrie sequence by creator Dewey Lambdin.
Our wild hero, Alan Lewrie, is in hassle together with his spouse, condemned by his daughter, and unsupported by the Navy Division. He was fortunate sufficient to obtain a commanding place on an expedition to the West Indies, the place he was to suppress a bloodthirsty slave revolt led by Toussaint L’Ouverture, the longer term father of Haitian independence. chief. In Haiti, L’Ouverture’s forces had been looting plantations and massacring whites and blended skins. The French hurried to make a take care of the British, as solely the British had the power to cease L’Ouverture and his basic Dessalines. For sure, Lewrie discovered loads of skirmishes, each naval and romantic; Within the midst of scorching battles, a world group of beauties maintain him in each consolation of the flesh.
That is the tenth novel within the sequence about Royal Navy officer Alan Lewrie. It could be obscure a lot of the plot with out studying the earlier novels. After the earlier novels (“Jester’s Fortune”, and so on.), this one was a disappointment. The novel begins with Lewrie going out to city together with his father, with a damaged arm and indicators of hassle together with his spouse. The creator then makes use of one chapter to flashback to Camperdown to elucidate his damaged arm, and the second to flashback to a day earlier and his very public confrontation together with his spouse. Contemplating Caroline had as soon as used a pistol (see “the Gun Ketch”), Lewrie was fortunate to die together with her pores and skin intact.
Lewrie discovered himself considerably unpopular on the Admiralty, and was despatched to the West Indies (at the very least he had orders). The creator tends to make use of loads of area for trifles, whereas barely mentioning the essential (the supply of dispatch to Admiral Jervis is implied in a single sentence). There are locations the place the story appears to progress by leaps and bounds. Outdated acquaintances are pulled into the story right here and there as Lewrie lastly will get again into motion in a sequence of skirmishes, with enemies or with out there ladies. Tropical fever losses had been described by Frederick Hoffman in his autobiography, “A Sailor of King George.”
The novel appears to alternate between naval motion, discussions of ethical philosophy, quick speeches about historical past or geography, and incidents in Lewrie’s emotional life. The story continues to be unfinished. Caroline has kicked him out and needs most of his possessions, his younger daughter brazenly calls him a sinner, his sons have been despatched to a boarding faculty, a Considered one of his pals needed him to be second in a deliberate duel, and the evil Choundos was again. A narrative with graphic sexual content material does not enhance on a mediocre novel.
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