The King's Privateer (Alan Lewrie Naval Adventures #4)
Synthetic audio, Automated braille
Summary
In The King's Privateer, the fourth novel in a series of colorful, authentic and at times ribald adventures on and off the high seas, we rejoin intrepid rogue-hero Alan Lewrie in his rise through the ranks of His Majesty's Royal… Navy in the latter half of the eighteenth century. Here Lewrie, now a lieutenant, sails for the South China Seas as Artillery Officer aboard the 80-gun 3rd Rate Telesto, a vessel disguised as a merchant ship but actually on a top-secret mission to keep an eye on the Dutch, the Spanish and especially the French, to make sure they don't cause trouble for His Majesty's territories in the region. From Canton to Calcutta, Lewrie finds skullduggery at every turn. And, as his followers have come to expect, between roaring broadsides at sea and perilous cloak- and-dagger escapades ashore, Lewrie still finds time for mischief among the femmes fatales of the Far East.