The King’s Marauder

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Review #1

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Highly enjoyable historic fiction set in the period of the Napoleonic Wars with Britain struggling to contain the French and their allies, largely at sea. Protagonist Captain Alan Lewrie is tossed back into this action after recovering from wounds inflicted on his last voyage out in the frigate Reliant. This time he’s in charge of the Sapphire, a larger vessel with heavier firepower, and given responsibility for getting a convoy of merchant ships to British-held Gibraltar. Once safely there, the assignment changes to raiding the Spanish coast in an attempt to convince the Spanish government that its alliance with Napoleon is a major liability. Historically accurate or not, Lewrie more or less invents amphibious assault craft and tactics as he gleefully sets about his commando warfare.

“The King’s Marauder” easily fits into the Lewrie series, with familiar characters, language, descriptions of early 19th Century life at sea, in the English countryside as a squire and in claustrophobic sandpile of Gibraltar. Author Dewey Lambdin’s sea battle narratives are skilled and credible. There’s a lot of research behind this book–and its predecessors–I always learn a lot about sea battles and obscure moments in history from them. Most of all, I enjoy the considerable wit and humanity vested in the novels. The characters often have the feel of real people going about their lives. Most of it’s pretty gritty and often unpleasant. To be sure, there are times when historic reality gets a little bent to accommodate the storyline, and characters can get a little exaggerated to serve the same purpose. Whatever–it all adds up to enjoyable reading, which I hope will extend well into the end of the Napoleonic period at least.

Postscript: If you’re interested in the historic period that this novel covers, you might like “The Siege” by Arturo Perez-Reverte which was published in English recently. It picks up a year or two after “The King’s Marauder” as the Spanish government in exile sets up in Cadiz and is supported militarily by the British. This was more or less the goal of Alan Lewrie and his masters. It’s a very good read–historic fiction cum mystery.

Review #2

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I’d place this one somewhere in the middle of the Lewrie canon. He’s back to his old ram-cat ways (in bed, anyway), and once again, some interesting characters. Unfortunately, there was little ship to ship action, and what action there was, happened on shore to others, with Lewie only a far away observer. I guess this was bound to happen as his rank increases – you have to send out the others to do the dirty work.

Like his interaction with the spies…and his difficulties in working with the Port administration to outfit his expedition.
Though the one ship to ship action with the frigates was almost a throw in – “Oh yeah, this is an “Age of Sale” book – I’ve gotta have some action in it!

Review #3

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The book opens up with our scaly nautical hero landlocked while recovering from a wound to his leg. His old servant Will Cony helps him get back on his feet and it was great to read this section of the book.
After a compete healing Alan is headed back to London to give notice that he is back in fighting form. He runs in to his old First Lt who lost his post in a new ship when it fails to appear back in London and is assumed to be sunk with all hands.
Finally his name is called out and he visits the secretary of the Navy to receive his ship and assignment. On to a bigger ship and a bigger crew complement. The ship is at sixes and sevens as the captain and first Lt. decide to “blaze away” at each other in a much frowned upon duel. The ship has it’s factions who support the old captain and those who support the first Lt. Luckily for Alan he is able to request his first Lt from his other ship, and together they start working the divided ship into a single body of sailors, all working towards the same goal of thumping the enemy as best they can.
Sadly, a prospective relationship with a certain lady comes to an end at Christmas time. But Alan’s a Navy man, and “Growl he may, but go he must.”
He’s off to Gibraltar with orders from the secret office to kick over the Spanish enemy ant hills and cause havoc and mayhem any chance he gets.
He has dealings with a certain Sir Hew Dalrymple, which raised my Horatio Hornblower awareness flag, as that character also had dealings with this Governor of Gibraltar in the movie The Duchess and the Devil. Here is a link to the real man
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I’m a real nerd when it comes to finding real people in fictional stories.
Sir Alan is back to dealing with his old secretary Mountjoy who works for the Secret Office out of Gibraltar, in putting together the Navy’s first amphibious assault unit. And at times I saw faint storyline cross overs with Dudley Pope’s Lord Nicholas Ramage story #10 The Ramage Touch, where they are blowing up semaphore towers along an enemies coast.
Some very nice ship fighting actions and a defeated Spanish Sea Captain going down with his ship.
It also seems that our “Ram cat” is turning in to a “dog person” as we get to read about the dog who was adopted by the ships company in the last book is back in this book and under the Captains protection.
I did find it odd, that after so many books written by this author, he chose not to add any additional comments at the end of the book pertaining to a history, or what will be next for Alan. That was kind of sad, I always look forward to that final part of the story.
But over all, a very nice addition to the series, and I’m eagerly looking forward to next years release.
As I say in a lot of my reviews about series of books that I follow, I strongly suggest that you start at the beginning of this series The Kings Coat and read from there, even though this book is a stand alone story, the back stories on all of the characters have been developed over the past 19 books, and that isn’t something you are going to want to miss out on.

Review #4

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I have gradually grown to love this series, and am sorry that this appears to be the last (for now?). Lambdin’s battle scene writing equals that of any of the comparative authors, and he conveys a tremendous atmosphere of what life on an early 19th C warship was like. My niggles are small ones – Chapter Forty is correctly spelt, but the text contains the spelling of ‘fourty’. Also I understand that the Royal Navy always referred to a ‘pennant’, not a ‘pendant’, as in ‘commissioning pennant’, and a ‘Commodore’s broad pennant’. One or two Americanisms also annoy – ‘gotten’, for example. However this is nitpicking; these are wonderful books.

Review #5

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I love this series of books – hugely enjoyable – alongside Aubrey, Hornblower and Sharpe, Lewrie is one of my favourites. Like many of the other books in the series, this one slowly works its way up to an exciting finale with minor skirmishes and the inevitable female interest on the way. There are at least another 5 of these published in the US but not available in the UK – why is that? The localisation must be minimal, so Amazon or whoever is responsible can you please get a move on and make the remaining books available to UK readers? I’d be happy to help!

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