'You could get addicted to this series. Easily.' - The New York Times Book Review
1793 - In the seas of revolution . . .
A farmer a bloody farmer! Knee-deep in dung and fathoms from the nearest port Alan Lewrie swashbuckling naval warrior turned family man longs for battle. And when it comes a battle royal it is! Called to the H.M.S. Cockerel a sleek frigate captained by a malaria-stricken tyrant First Officer Lewrie soon vaults to command taking Cockerel from the lush pleasures of the Kingdom of Naples to a smoking cauldron called Toulon. There an outnumbered coalition of former enemies is being drawn into a terrible land-sea battle against the revolutionary French in a siege of blood and terror that will send shock waves around the world. . . .
He's fought and loved on land and bounding sea from America to the East Indies. Alan Lewrie is the unforgettable hero-rogue of the age of wooden-walled spray-lashed fighting ships.
