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January 1801, and Captain Alan Lewrie, RN, known as St. Alan the Liberator for freeing (stealing!) a dozen black slaves on Jamaica to man his frigate years before, is at last being brought to trial for it, with his life on the line. At the same time, Russia, Sweden, Denmark, and Prussia are forming a League of Armed Neutrality, to Napoleon Bonapartes delight, to deny Great Britain their vital exports, even if it means war. England will need all her experienced sea dogs, but even Alan Lewrie? Ultimately Lewis is acquitted, but hes also ignored by the Navy, so its half-pay on civvy street for him, and with idle time on his mischievous hands, Lewrie is sure to get himself in trouble---again!---especially if there are young women and his wastrel public school friends involvedand they are! A brawl in a Panton Saint brothel, a drunk, infatuated young Russian count, precede Lewries summons to Admiralty and the command of the Thermopylae frigate to replace an ill captain as the fleet gathers to face down the League of the North, and its instigator, the mad Tsar Paul. Lewrie must take the Thermopylae into the Baltic in the dead of winter, alone and with no support, to scout the e

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Author

Lambdin, Dewey

Publisher

Macmillan

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9780312348069

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Historical Fiction

Rating

4.1 / 5 (251 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14