The King's Coat
by:
John Lee (author)
Dewey Lambdin (author)
Format: audiobook
ISBN:
9780736670333 (0736670335)
Publish date: February 29th 2003
Publisher: Books on Tape
Edition language: English
Series: Alan Lewrie 2 (#1)
No good at all. Other reviewers have already pointed out that the hero is unlikeable, the plot lacks both tension and resolution, and the language is anachronistic. To make his hero seem really gifted, the author resorts to a simple expedient of making the others act in a dangerously obtuse way, and...
In The King's Coat first in the series, Lewrie is forcibly introduced to the navy. Nicknamed "the little bastard" by his father, he was the product of an early premarital and pre-war fling of Sir Hugh, his father, adopted, pampered and rather spoiled. Alan, at age eighteen, enjoys the ladies, b...