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The Invasion Year is the seventeenth tale in Dewey Lambdin's smashing naval adventure series. For a fellow like Captain Alan Lewrie, Royal Navy, who despises the French worse than the Devil hates Holy Water, it's hellish-hard to gain a reputation for saving them, not once but twice, when the French refugees from Haiti surrender to England rather than the vengeful ex-slave armies in November of 1803! After that, it could be "all claret and cruising" in the Caribbean, but for a home-bound sugar convoy, one so frustrating as to make even the happy-go-lucky Alan Lewrie tear his hair out, kick furniture, and curse like . . . well, like a sailor! Back in England for the first time in two years, there are honors from the Crown for gallant service . . . a lot more than he expected from King George III, who was having a bad morning, then a chance to move in Society after an introduction to an intriguing daughter of a peer. But then come secret orders to experiment with several types of "infernal engines of war," which might delay or postpone the dreaded cross-Channel invasion by Napoleon Bonaparte, his huge army, and his thousands of invasion craft. For the rest of 1804, Alan Lewrie and his
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- Author
- Lambdin, Dewey
- Publisher
- St. Martin's Press
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781250001979
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities
- Rating
- 4.08 / 5 (245 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
Other editions & translations
- The Invasion Year: An Alan Lewrie Naval Adventure (Alan Lewrie Naval Adventures Book 17) (2011)
- The Invasion Year: An Alan Lewrie Naval Adventure (Alan Lewrie Naval Adventures) (2010)
- The invasion year : an Alan Lewrie naval adventure (2011)
- The Invasion Year: An Alan Lewrie Naval Adventure (Alan Lewrie Naval Adventures Book 17) (2010)
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