Sea of Grey

De: Dewey Lambdin

Narrado por: John Lee

Captain Alan Lewrie returns for his tenth roaring adventure on the high seas. This time, it's off to a failing British intervention on the ultra-rich French colony of Saint Domingue, wracked by an utterly cruel and bloodthirsty slave rebellion led by Toussaint L'Ouverture, the future father of Haitian independence. Beset and distracted though he might be, it will take all of Lewrie's pluck, daring, skill, and his usual tongue-in-cheek deviousness, to navigate all the perils in a sea of grey.©2002 Dewey Lambdin; (P)2003 Books on Tape, Inc.

Great fun!

Great fun! A good swashbuckling yarn. I ended up doing a lot of googling about yellow fever, Hati, and other historical materials discussed in the book. I didn't really like the start of the book, but then got into it in a serious way. I wish there were more of Lambdin's books on audible. John Lee does a very good job of narrating.

Great Book!

I'm a huge fan of Dewey Lambdin! this book had it all! I recommend starting from the beginning.

Solid Nautical Fiction Book

If you are are nautical fiction fan, you won't be disappointed with this audiobook. The narrator does an excellent job of bringing the characters to life with a variety of accents -British, American, French, Jamaican etc. As an avid reader of this genre, there is no comparison to P. O'Brian's masterpieces but this is a good adventure that will give you a glimpse of life in the Royal Navy in the late 1700s. The only compliant I had with this one is that I felt as if I had intruded into the middle of the author's character development for Captain Lewrie. This was indeed the 10th book in the series for this character! Wish audible would have started with the first one.

Always great tales

The captain always delivers, I never tire of the Ram Cat’s escapades! Can’t wait to read of the next adventure

Enjoyable

I am a bit hesitant to comment on any maritime historical fiction aside from O'Brian's books as they tend to pale by comparison. But this book held my attention and I do recommend it. My only personal complaint is that for the time period of this story there was NO Revenue Cutter "Trumbull". The USS Trumbull, at this time, was an 18 gun sloop-of-war (for the US, this meant an under-sized three-masted ship with anywhere from 18 to 24 guns on a single gun deck - the British had a different system) built /launched in Norwich, Connecticut to serve in the Quasi-War of the US vs France. In May 1801 she was sold into private merchant service as part of the Peace Establishment downsizing of the US Navy after the close of the Quasi-War. Most listeners won't care, but naval and Coast Guard historians will chafe at the repeated mistake.