King's Captain: An Alan Lewrie Naval Adventure

I have most of the Dewey Lambdin books and like all of them and love several of them. I'd write more reviews but Michael K. Smith usually puts it better than I could.
That said, King's Captain demonstrates a good author doing a first-rate job of illuminating the history of the industrial revolution, the enclosures, the displacement of vast numbers of British citizens (Okay, subjects) in the early 1800s. Lambdin's naval officer Alan Lewrie does not depart from his character, and yet he cannot help but observe the inequities that prompt the mutiny at the Nore.
The reader is in effect seeing a remarkable period of history through the eyes of a consistently realized character.
Note that Lambdin was once a producer of TV news. Occasionally I find his writing captures a scene like a video camera.
It is a delightful find even among the many rigorous researchers who write military fiction from this Napoleonic era.

Continuing series

Awesome story as always!

Great

eye like this kind of stories

Can we please have a moratorium on Patrick O'Brian/Dewey Lambdin comparisons? When you have an enjoyable time with friends at a good steakhouse do you say, "the cook here is swell but he's no Joel Rubochon?" Alan Lewrie is a congenial hero and Lambdin makes you root for him. The books are well plotted. Lambdin's knowledge of sailing technique stands up to scrutiny. Just be grateful and stop whining about what his books aren't. I have read them all in sequence through King's Captain and look forward to more.

Good read

Book as described

I ordered this book and it came with the exact cover as pictured above. However, the entire inside was a Spanish language textbook on organizational effectiveness! A textbook in Spanish with the King's Captain as the cover. If you look at the possible offers on the book, you'll see some at $13.92 and some at over 30 dollars. Is it a textbook? Publisher sure screwed this one up. Buyer beware on this book in the series.

I find these a slow read. Too much story and not enough sailing adventure. Although I find later that I am learning of the times and events that never came to my attention before. I intend to finish the series.