[Alan Lewrie 19] • Hostile Shores

"Lambdin is closing on Patrick O'Brian as the most prolific historical

novelist to celebrate a Royal Navy mariner." — _Washington Times_

__In 1805, with news of Admiral Nelson's death fresh on his mind, Captain

Lewrie's _HMS Reliant_ joins up in the voyage that will culminate in the

Battle of Cape Town, in which the British wrested control of South Africa from

the Dutch. In the wake of that victory, Lewrie heads west to South America,

where Britain's attacks on Buenos Aires and other Spanish colonies have not

been faring as well. But the worst is yet to come, and soon Lewrie will be

facing a battle at sea that will put his naval career and life at risk.

Dewey Lambdin has been roundly praised as one of the best living novelists

writing in the vein of Patrick O'Brian and C. S. Forester. In  _Hostile

Shores_ he returns with an exciting, battle-heavy tale of life in the King's

Navy, starring the rough-edged hero Captain Alan Lewrie.