Kings and Emperors

An Alan Lewrie Naval Adventure, Book 21

By: Dewey Lambdin

Narrated by: John Lee

In Kings and Emperors, the 21st installment in Dewey Lambdin's beloved Alan Lewrie series, Captain Alan Lewrie, Royal Navy, is still in Gibraltar, his schemes for raids along the coast of Southern Spain shot to a halt. He is reduced to commanding a clutch of harbor-defense gunboats in the bay while his ship, HMS Sapphire, slowly grounds herself on a reef of beef bones! Until Napoleon Bonaparte's invasion of peaceful Portugal and his so-called collaborative march into Spain change everything, freeing Sapphire to roam against the king's enemies once more!

As kings are overthrown and popular uprisings break out all across Spain, Lewrie's right back in the action, ferrying weapons to arm Spanish patriots, scouting within close gun range of the impregnable fort of Ceuta, escorting the advance units of British expeditionary armies to aid the Spanish, and even going ashore to witness the first battles between Sir Arthur Wellesley, later the duke of Wellington, and Napoleon's best marshals, as the long Peninsular War that broke Imperial France begins to unfold.

From Cádiz to La Coruña, Lewrie and Sapphire will be there as history explodes!

©2015 Dewey Lambdin (P)2020 Tantor

The actor narrating is the best. John Lee!!!

I love this series and John Lee makes it all come alive. Fabulous gifted actor!

Another great adventure for our favorite Ramcat.

Glad to see our favorite Naval hero is still causing confusion to the French and continues to stir up trouble wherever he goes.