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Title: The Power & the Glory

Author: William C. Hammond

Narrator: Robert Blumenfeld

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-28-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

The Power and the Glory is the third novel in William C. Hammonds rousing nautical fiction series. This volume is set in the late 1790s during the Quasi-War with France and offers listeners a look at the new American Navy during the Age of Fighting Sail. Following in the wake of his previous novels, A Matter of Honor and For Love of Country, it features the adventures of the seafaring Cutler family of Hingham, Massachusetts, and an ever-expanding cast of characters - some real, some fictional - that includes Lt. Richard Cutler, along with Capt. Thomas Truxtun, Capt. Silas Talbot, and other naval heroes personifying the best of American honor and courage as they confront French pirates off the coast of Nantucket and heavily armed French frigates in the Caribbean.

Hammond packs his book with electrifying sea battles and daring challenges to French colonial rule in Haiti and the West Indies. He also offers captivating glimpses into the everyday life of the era, from the bedroom of the Cutler clapboard home in Hingham, to the familys sugarcane plantation in Barbados, to Admiral Sir Hyde Parkers flagship in Jamaica. And at the center of all the excitement, passion, and intrigue are two of the finest frigates ever constructed: USS Constellation and her sister ship, USS Constitution. Lauded for his careful research, attention to detail, and thorough knowledge of the ways of the sea, Hammond brings history alive while telling a rollicking good tale.

Members Reviews:

Engaging history!

The Haitian Revolution and America's quasi-war with France provide the background and conflict for Richard Cutler et al in the third book of the Cutler Family Chronicles, a maritime saga that engaged me from the get-go with its heart, historical accuracy and seamless prose. Richard Cutler is a brave seafaring man and in this book he becomes a lieutenant in the fledgling American Navy. Yet he also has strong family ties and although his family is wealthy, they have their problems as well as their joys. Richard faces trials, challenges -- and temptations. Things could get complicated in his personal life, there are French frigates and privateers to out-shoot or out-wit and the future of the United States is at stake. Real historical people interact with well-drawn characters throughout this series. Hammond's pacing is brisk yet the places and events he describe are vivid and I am awed by the sound history behind it.

A rousing Caribbean cruise

On the third in our continuing series of voyages with the Cutlers, author Bill Hammond takes us back to the Caribbean, a critical scene of action in the first book of the series -- but with some significant differences. In this third book, the British are no longer America's adversaries but our allies, as the young republic fights a quasi-war against its former Revolutionary ally, France. This third volume picks up with one of the two strands left dangling in the previous book of the series. One, of course, was the French revolution, which leads our hero, Richard Cutler, to rescue his former lover, Anne-Marie, the widow of a noble, from Revolutionary zealots. Safely remarried and ensconced in Boston society by the start of this third volume, Anne-Marie is, nevertheless, still a source of tension in Richard's marriage to Katherine, a union that might otherwise be characterized as too perfect.