The Captain's Vengeance: An Alan Lewrie Naval Adventure: 12 (Alan Lewrie Naval Adventures 12)

It is early February 1799 a year of war. . Sailing in the Caribbean Captain Alan Lewrie Royal Navy is once again pursuing a chimera. A rich French prize ship hed left at anchor at Dominica has gone missing along with six of his sailors. . What starts as a straightforward search for it and them from Hispaniola to Barbados far down the Antilles leads Lewrie to a gruesome discovery on the Dry Tortugas and to a vile cabal of the most pitiless and depraved pirates ever to sail under the Jolly Roger . . . and the suspicion that one of his trusted hands just may be the worst of them all!. Against his will---again---the usually irrepressible Lewrie is made his superiors cats-paw once more and his covert mission this time is to go up the Mississippi in enemy-held Spanish Louisiana to the romantic but sordid port of New Orleans in search of pirates and prize where one false step could betray Lewrie and his small party as spies. Beguilements betrayal and death lurk round every corner of the Vieux Carré and its up to Lewries quick but cynical wits to win the day for their survival and wreak a very personal vengeance on his foes!. The Captains Vengeance is another rollicking fast-paced naval adventure from Dewey Lambdin.