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  • The Jamaica Station

  • Carlisle and Holbrooke Naval Adventures, Book 3
  • By: Chris Durbin
  • Narrated by: David Lane Pusey
  • Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
  • 4.4 out of 5 stars (40 ratings)

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The Jamaica Station

By: Chris Durbin
Narrated by: David Lane Pusey
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It is 1757, and the British navy is regrouping from a slow start to the Seven Years War.

A Spanish colonial governor and his family are pursued through the Caribbean by a pair of mysterious ships from the Dutch island of St. Eustatius. The British frigate Medina rescues the governor from his hurricane-wrecked ship, leading Captain Edward Carlisle and his first lieutenant George Holbrooke into a web of intrigue and half-truths. Are the Dutchmen operating under a letter of marque, or are they pirates, and why are they hunting the Spaniard? Only the diplomatic skills of Carlisle’s aristocratic wife, Lady Chiara, can solve the puzzle.

When Carlisle is injured, the young Holbrooke must grow up quickly. Under his leadership, Medina takes part in a one-sided battle with the French that will influence a young Horatio Nelson to choose the navy as a career.

The Jamaica Station follows the colonial post-captain and the Leeward Islands Squadron as the third of the Carlisle and Holbrooke naval adventures. The series will record the exploits of the two men through the Seven Years War and into the period of turbulent relations between Britain and her American colonies in the 1760s.

©2018 Chris Durbin Author Ltd. (P)2022 Chris Durbin Author Ltd.
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Narrator talks extremely fast! Hard to follow at times. Story was pretty good though. Thanks.

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Enjoyable

I enjoyed this audio book. Good history, ripping yarn, and well delivered. My only question: where is the rest of the series? I’m looking foto the rest.

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Story better than narrator

I enjoyed the three books in this series, but found the new narrator to be distracting and somewhat confusing. Much preferred narrator for the first two books

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Another Good Story

While I found the narrator somewhat annoying in this tale as opposed to the last two in the series, it was an engaging tale well spun.

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Excellent

Great story to follow the first 2
Few have written naval fiction covering this period and I love the dynamic between the 2 principles

I do wish they hadn’t changed narrator’s

Looking forward to #4

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Great book - terrible narrator

I really like this book series. it is good historic fiction of naval adventures in the Seven Years' War (1756–1763).

But in this 3rd book, they changed the narrator for the worse. The new narrator will properly make me drop the series. He does not sound English and even pronounces Carlisle differently than the norm. All of this distracts from the story.

The narrator is so bad, it is keeping me from purchasing the next book in the series.

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Missing Steven Crossley's narration

Just adding to the lament of other reviews. The narrator is not terrible, but when you've become used to the voices performed by Stephen crossley, it is disappointing to have them changed in the third book of the series.

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