Sea of Grey is the tenth literary fiction book in the Alan Lewrie series by author Dewey Lambdin.

Our wild hero, Alan Lewrie, is in trouble with his wife, condemned by his daughter, and unsupported by the Navy Department. He was lucky enough to receive a commanding position on an expedition to the West Indies, where he was to suppress a bloodthirsty slave revolt led by Toussaint L’Ouverture, the future father of Haitian independence. leader. In Haiti, L’Ouverture’s forces were looting plantations and massacring whites and mixed skins. The French hurried to make a deal with the British, as only the British had the strength to stop L’Ouverture and his general Dessalines. Needless to say, Lewrie found plenty of skirmishes, both naval and romantic; In the midst of hot battles, an international group of beauties take care of him in every comfort of the flesh.

This is the 10th novel in the series about Royal Navy officer Alan Lewrie. It would be difficult to understand much of the plot without reading the previous novels. After the previous novels (“Jester’s Fortune”, etc.), this one was a disappointment. The novel begins with Lewrie going out to town with his father, with a broken arm and signs of trouble with his wife. The author then uses one chapter to flashback to Camperdown to explain his broken arm, and the second to flashback to a day earlier and his very public confrontation with his wife. Considering Caroline had once used a pistol (see “the Gun Ketch”), Lewrie was lucky to die with her skin intact.
Lewrie found himself somewhat unpopular at the Admiralty, and was sent to the West Indies (at least he had orders). The author tends to use a lot of space for trifles, while barely mentioning the important (the delivery of dispatch to Admiral Jervis is implied in one sentence). There are places where the story seems to progress by leaps and bounds. Old acquaintances are pulled into the story here and there as Lewrie finally gets back into action in a series of skirmishes, with enemies or with available women. Tropical fever losses were described by Frederick Hoffman in his autobiography, “A Sailor of King George.”

The novel seems to alternate between naval action, discussions of moral philosophy, short speeches about history or geography, and incidents in Lewrie’s emotional life. The story is still unfinished. Caroline has kicked him out and wants most of his possessions, his young daughter openly calls him a sinner, his sons have been sent to a boarding school, a One of his friends wanted him to be second in a planned duel, and the evil Choundos was back. A story with graphic sexual content doesn’t improve on a mediocre novel.

• Sea of Grey

• By: Dewey Lambdin

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