The King's Marauder: An Alan Lewrie Naval Adventure (Alan Lewrie Naval Adventures)
Captain Alan Lewrie returns soul-weary and battle-worn but no less determined to do his duty in his own incomparably quirky fashion. Thoroughly sick and tired of his enforced rustication after being wounded during his most recent nautical adventure, the incorrigible and intrepid Lewrie is clamoring for a new commission. In fact, it seems any commission will do, as he is bamboozled into accepting command of the Sapphire, a clumsy two-deck 50-gunner, rather than a sleek, swift frigate. When His Majesty’s Foreign Office’s Secret Branch directs Lewrie to provide safe and discreet transport, landing, and recovery for agents and messengers along the Spanish coast, he puts his background in skulduggery to good use to devise  methods of doing so in spite of the obvious handicap his bulky ship presents. With Lewrie in command, action, adventure, and intrigue are guaranteed to keep discriminating fans of maritime historical fiction hugely entertained. --Margaret Flanagan