The Baltic Gambit, by Dewey Lambdin

April 27, 2009 by
Filed under: Alan Lewrie, book review, Dewey Lambdin, historical fiction, naval fiction 

In The Baltic Gambit, Alan Lewrie is faced with a courtroom showdown with the odious Beauman family and the lawsuit that has provided so much trouble for him. The first part of the book finds him on shore fighting this battle. And, of course, there are ladies on shore, and Alan Lewrie was The Baltic Gambit, by Dewey Lambdin never immune to feminine charms and entanglements.

Even so, the book is somewhat slow in picking up. Lewrie stays on land for the first 200 pages. In the Admiralty, when asking for a ship, he is even told in no uncertain terms that he shouldn’t count on ever commanding a ship again. Life is not very good to Lewrie! But finally, after a change of leadership in the Admiralty, he gets his ship, the frigate HMS Thermopylae. And now action soon moves to the Baltic area. As so many times before, the naval mission is yet again combined with a diplomatic task, and once again set up by his shadowy mentor, Zachariah Twigg.

The mission assigned to him is to transport two Russian noblemen from England to Russia. The purpose of the mission is to try to convince the Russian Czar to not enter into a state of armed neutrality aimed at Britain. As well, Alan Lewrie gets to meet Admiral Nelson and take part in the Copenhagen battle!

The Baltic Gambit is a new great book from Lambdin – very interesting!

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