Check the log, shipmate: Dewey Lambdin has leftAlexander Kent and C.S. Forester hull-down in an ocean of words and is closing on Patrick O'Brian as the most prolific historical novelist to celebrate aRoyal Navy mariner during the age of sail. Qualitative comparisons aside, that’s no small feat, as “Reefs and Shoals” is the author’s 18th yarn about a briny Brit who swashbuckles through the scuppers all the way up to a peerage with blue-water derring-do.
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