<DIV><DIV>The year 1807 starts out badly for Captain Alan Lewrie, Royal Navy. He’s living at his father’s estate at Anglesgreen, recovering from a wound suffered in the South Atlantic. At last there’s a bright spot. Admiralty awards him a new commission, not a frigate but a clumsy, slow two-decker, Fourth Rate 50. Are his frigate days over for good?<BR><BR>Lewrie’s ordered to Gibraltar, but Foreign Office Secret Branch’s spies and manipulators have use for him, again! HMS <I>Sapphire</I> is the wrong ship for the task, raising chaos and mayhem along the Spanish coasts, and servicing agents and informers. What he’s ordered to do needs soldiers, landing craft, and a transport ship, all of which he doesn’t have, and must find a way to finagle it all.<BR><BR>He could beg off and say that it’s asking too much, but . . . Alan Lewrie is not a man to admit failure and defeat, and his quest might prove the most daunting of his long naval career.<BR><BR>Dewey Lambdin's <I>The King's Marauder </I>is the 20th thrilling installment in his highly acclaimed and beloved Alan Lewrie Naval Adventure series.</DIV></DIV>