Sea of Grey
Subtitle: An Alan Lewrie Naval Adventure (Alan Lewrie Naval Adventures)
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Published: December 1, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780312320164
Subjects: Historical - General; Fiction / Historical; American Historical Fiction; Fiction; Fiction - Historical; Haiti; History; Revolution, 1791-1804
First sentence: Supping with his father was not exactly Alan Lewrie's idea for how he had intended to complete his personal celebrations, after a day of honour and fame, but after the disastrous shambles in Hyde Park he found himself at rather greater than "loose ends," with his only ally in the world that cynical Corinthian, that shameless old rake-hell and charter member of the infamous Hell-Fire Club; to wit, Major-General Sir Hugo St. George Willoughby, Knight of The Garter, with his sardonic, acidic jollity, with his perpetual leer for all things feminine....