The Gun Ketch: The Naval Adventures of Alan Lewrie

You could get addicted to this series. Easily.
–The New York Times Book Review 1788–Bahamas Squadron … A fighter, rogue, and ladies man, Alan Lewrie has done the unthinkable and gotten himself hitched–to a woman and a ship! The woman is the lovely Caroline Chiswick. The ship is the gun ketch, Alacrity, bound for the Bahamas and a bloody game of cat and mouse with the pirates who ply the lunatic winds there. But while war comes naturally to the young husband, politics doesn’t. Sure that a powerful Bahamian merchant is behind a scourge of piracy, Lewrie runs afoul of the Royal Governor–who holds the most precious hostage of all… . From the windswept Carolinas to the exotic East Indies, Alan Lewrie fights and frolics with all the wild abandon of the high seas themselves. He’s a true swashbuckling naval hero in the age of great sailing ships.
Grand, satisfying … Fans as well as newcomers will relish Lambdin’s unerring depiction of Navy politicking, the niceties of Nassau society … and, in fact, all the rich details of late-18th-century life at sea and shore.
–PublishersWeekly
Hair-raising action … Fascinating … Grandly entertaining.
–The Flint Journal
Recommended … Lambdin’s work is comparable to that of masters such as C. S. Forester.
–Library Journal