THE KING'S MARAUDER

The year 1807 starts out badly for Captain Alan Lewrie Royal Navy. In The King''s Marauder his frigate HMS Reliant has a new captain he''s living at his father''s estate at Anglesgreen among spiteful neighbors and family and he''s recovering from a wound suffered in the South Atlantic. At last there''s a bright spot. When fit Admiralty awards him a new commission; not a frigate but a clumsy slow two-decker fourth-rate 50. Are his frigate days over for good? Lewrie''s ordered to Gibraltar but Foreign Office Secret Branch''s spies and manipulators have use for him again! HMS Sapphire is the wrong ship for the task raising chaos and mayhem along the Spanish coasts and servicing agents and informers. And what he''s ordered to do needs soldiers landing craft and a transport ship all of which he doesn''t have and must find a way to finagle it all. He could beg off and say that it''s asking too much but...Alan Lewrie is not a man to admit failure and defeat and his quest might prove the most daunting of his long naval career.