1780: Seventeen-year-old Alan Lewrie is a brash, rebellious young libertine.
He lives in Nashville, Tennessee..
He is the author of the Alan Lewrie series and What Lies Buried: A Novel of Old Cape Fear .
About the Author: Dewey Lambdin has been a sailor since 1976 and has worked as a director, writer, and producer for television and advertising.
But in a hail of cannonballs comes a bawdy surprise.
Fresh aboard the tall-masted Ariadne , Midshipman Lewrie heads for the war-torn Americas, finding--rather unexpectedly--that he is a born sailor, equally at home with the randy pleasures of the port and the raging battles on the high seas.
So much so that his callous father believes a bit of navy discipline will turn the boy around. 1780: Seventeen-year-old Alan Lewrie is a brash, rebellious young libertine