King's Trade

by Dewey Lambdin

Book Overview

A King's Trade is the powder-packed thirteenth installment in Dewey Lambdin's classic naval adventure series.

After Yellow Fever decimated the crew of Alan Lewrie's HMS Proteus, it had seemed like a knacky idea to abscond with a dozen slaves from a Jamaican plantation to help man his frigate. But two years later, Lewrie is now suspected of the deed. Slave-stealing is a hanging offense, and suddenly his neck is at risk of a fatal stretching...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312378645
• ISBN13: 9780312378646
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Kings Trade Review

I think that this is a very good book. The Author (Dewey Lambdin) has a way of keeping you on the edge of your seat in Anal Lewrie's adventures. He keeps it pretty much to what would have actually happened in the time period. I strongly recommend the authors full series.

Dewey Done Did Good!

When a fellow reviewer wrote "Would not go to work this morning without turning the last page and then required several hankies and some Visine to do so." they mirrored my experience almost to a "T". I have thoroughly enjoied all of Lambdin's Lewrie novels and this one defiantely didn't let me down. In fact, it is at the top of my list of favorites in this line. My only complaint is that each new book in the series seems to get released later and later. For a long time, the books would release in Sept / Oct and I learned a long time ago to wait and read the current book around the end of August so I caould delve right into the next one.. Now I'll have to wait until January!

Alan Lewrie

Great seafaring book. I have all the Lewrie books. Mr Lamdin is an exceptional author. One I start reading one his books I am enthralled. I feel like I am there with Captain Lewrie, on and off ship. Will keep buyimg all his books.

Best in the series since the French Admiral

The French Admiral (2nd book) will probably always be the best book in this series, with the opener `The Kings Coat' a close second. The books that followed were readable but slowly deteriorated until it hit rock bottom with the 2 HMS Jester books (7 & 8 I think). A King's Trade however has totally rekindled my passion for this series and left me on a high waiting for the 12th book. It is great to know that we are only in the year 1800 and have 15 years left of war/peace for Lambdin to write Lewrie into. I do not understand a previous reviewers comments about the story not being fully developed and being a prelude to the next novel. The book does have an apt ending and is book 11 in a long series, of course there is a prelude to the next novel. Far from feeling let down, I believe this to be Lambdin best work since the French Admiral. Great writing, good flow of the story and a battle in the end.

Impossible to Put Down!

"Fans of C.S. Forrester's Master and Commander books will love this series. In the latest story Lambdin's hero becomes an abolitionist."