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Jester's Fortune

Jester's Fortune

by Dewey Lambdin

Published by: Globe Pequot

Imprint: McBooks Press

Sales Date: 10/01/2002

446 Pages, 5.50 x 8.50 x 0.98 in

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9781590130346
Published: October 2002

$24.95

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9781590131947
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1796. A diminutive, Corsican-born French general has inherited a ragtag army and turned it into an unstoppable fighting force. Within months, Napoleon's storm rolls across Italy and strikes a lethal blow against the Austrian empire. But while the soil of Piedmont and Tuscany runs with blood, another battle takes shape on the mysterious Adriatic Sea. Alan Lewrie and his 18-gun sloop, HMS Jester are part of a squadron of four British warships and sail into the thick of things. But with England's allies falling, Napoleon busy rearranging the world map, and their squadron stretched dangerously thin along the Croatian coast, the British squadron commander strikes a devil's bargain: enlisting the aid of Serbian pirates.

Dewey Lambdin has been a sailor since 1976 and has also worked as a director, writer, and producer in television and advertising. He is a member of the U.S. Naval Institute, the Cousteau Society, and the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, and is a Friend of the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, England. Besides the Alan Lewrie series, he is also the author of What Lies Buried: A Novel of Old Cape Fear. He lives in Nashville, Tennessee.

Stunning naval adventure, reeking of powder and mayhem. I wish I had written this series.
~Bernard Cornwell, Author, Excalibur / Sharpe's Fury

You could get addicted to this series. Easily.
~New York Times Book Review

His mastery of period naval warfare gives his battles real punch.

The brilliantly stylish American master of salty-tongued British naval tales.

If Horatio Hornblower is the gentleman’s sailor and Jack Aubrey is the thinking man’s sailor, Lewrie is of and for the working class. Pugnacious and randy, he’s a refreshing sea breeze.