King Ship and Sword: An Alan Lewrie Naval Adventure: 16 (Alan Lewrie Naval Adventures 16)

December 1801. The Peace of Amiens ends the long war with Napoleon Bonapartes France but Captain Alan Lewrie Royal Navy is appalled by its consequences. What is a dashing and successful frigate captain to do with himself ashore on half-pay? And where will Lewrie twiddle his thumbs until the war begins again as hes sure it will? Rejoin his wife and in-laws who (mostly) despise him like the Devil hates Holy Water on his rented farm in Surrey? Peace and domesticity are hellish hard on the rakehells! Yet by the spring of 1802 Lewrie and his Caroline have somewhat reconciled and are off to make a go of a second honeymoon―in Paris France of all places! There Lewrie finds himself rubbing shoulders with soldiers spies and even First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte himself. When Lewrie cant help spurring Napoleon into a kick-furniture rage he and Caroline must flee for their lives. When war breaks out again in May of 1803 Lewrie has fresh orders a new frigate and a chance to punish and pursue the French but its no longer for duty or king and country―now its personal!