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# A Fine Retribution: An Alan Lewrie Naval Adventure (Alan Lewrie Naval Adventures, 23)

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                  More Praise for the Series &quot;Check the log, shipmate: Dewey Lambdin has left Alexander Kent and C.S. Forester hull-down in an ocean of words and is closing on Patrick O&apos;Brian as the most prolific historical novelist to celebrate a Royal Navy mariner during the age of sail.&quot; &#x2015;Washington Times&quot;Lambdin succeeds with high-seas action, bravado, and Lewrie&apos;s characteristic antics, putting himself in good company with Julian Stockwin and Seth Hunter as worthy successors to the popular 18th- and 19th-century naval adventures of Forester, Kent, and Pope. ... Lewrie is a delightfully randy and irreverent character, the perfect man to walk the quarterdeck of a Royal Navy frigate.&quot; &#x2015;Publishers Weekly (starred review)&quot;A hugely entertaining naval adventure (&#xE1; la Forester and O&apos;Brian) with a different kind of protagonist.... Not merely a worthy entry in the very popular Lewrie series but a top-of-the-line naval adventure that can be thoroughly enjoyed by readers who&apos;ve never met Captain Lewrie until now.&quot; &#x2015;Booklist&quot;The brilliantly stylish American master of salty-tongued British naval tales.&quot; &#x2015;Kirkus Reviews
                    
                  
                
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                  DEWEY LAMBDIN is the author of more than twenty Alan Lewrie Naval Adventures, including The King&apos;s Coat. A member of the U.S. Naval Institute and a Friend of the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, England, he spends his free time working and sailing. He makes his home in Nashville, Tennessee, but would much prefer Margaritaville or Murrells Inlet.
                    
                  
                
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## Customer Reviews

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    Not bad
  

*by R***N on Reviewed in the United States on July 24, 2017*

I have read the Alan Lewrie and Tom Kydd series of novels from their starts, and like them both, but series that extend into double-digits can get a little long in the tooth. The most recent in the two series, “A Fine Retribution” by Lambdin and “Persephone” by Stockwin, have some parallels. Each is more of a love story than a story of naval adventure, in each the protagonist faces major political complications, and in each the female love interest is a free-spirited painter in the romantic style who must sell her work under a male pseudonym. All the same they are quite different.As I recall it always takes quite a few pages to get Alan Lewrie to sea and into conflict. In this case more than the first half of the book is more of a light romance novel than an adventure novel. Romance is not to my taste (and given Lewrie’s bawdy nature a little unbelievable) but I read this with some enjoyment and recommend it to Lewrie fans and especially to those who find romance novels to their taste sometimes.If Lewrie’s new story is light romance, Kydd’s is broad comedy, with our frigate-captain playing the Buffone. The style is not comedic but plot elements are definite comedic turns – “Bring on the lovers, liars and clowns!” I had to skip several chapters – I just despise broad comedy, probably because I am too much of a Buffone myself. There are, though, plenty of twists and turns, both in the naval adventure parts and the romantic comedy, and the naval adventure turns on some real (and surprising) actual history, so those of Kydd’s fans who are more tolerant of buffoonery than I am will probably enjoy this outing.

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    Too Long a Wait
  

*by A***R on Reviewed in the United States on July 31, 2017*

It is always too long a wait until the next Alan Lewrie novel is published.  More historical detail. More adventure.  A perfect mix for a well researched historical novel with unique characterizations that maintain a reader's interest.  Recommend the entire series.  With respect to this particular novel, there is a bit of a focus on the "office politics" of assignments and advancement in the officer cadre of the British Navy, which can sometimes go hand and hand with a lack of initiative and stifling of progress by those with vested interests. Sometimes referred to as bureaucratic inertia, Lewie has to wade through a bunch of it, ultimately widening his experience --  and his reputation --  skirmishing with feet firmly planted on foreign shores.

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    "Need any cabin furniture, Captain Lewrie?"
  

*by J***E on Reviewed in the United States on September 28, 2017*

“A Fine Retribution” is far from the most energetic of Dewey Lambdin’s Alan Lewrie novels. Through twenty-three chapters or more, a reader might be forgiven for thinking the author has gone all Jane Austen on us: we certainly learn more than we need to about the crown mouldings, wainscotting, and drains in Sir Alan’s rental house. But domestic entanglements have long been a key part of this series, and so Lewrie’s courtship of an attractive young painter with a mind of her own mostly works. If nothing else, we get to see how much the “Ram-cat” has changed—maybe. I don’t see any flagging of authorial interest here. But I wouldn’t mind, either, if the next book opens with guns blazing.

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