Fletcher's Fortune cover art

Fletcher's Fortune

Fletcher Series, Book 1

 Preview
Try Premium Plus free
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, celeb exclusives, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Fletcher's Fortune

By: John Drake
Narrated by: Joseph Lindoe
Try Premium Plus free

£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Buy Now for £14.99

Buy Now for £14.99

Confirm Purchase
Pay using card ending in
Switch payment method
By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. Please see our Privacy Notice, Cookies Notice and Interest-based Ads Notice.
Cancel

About this listen

Jacob Fletcher is unsure of his parentage, but he does know that, as an apprentice, he couldn't legally be seized by the press gang. This particular gang, however, doesn't abide by the law.

Fletcher finds himself risking life, limb, and sea sickness to save his fortune now at risk of being lost to his evil step-mother and loathsome half-brothers.

Public Domain (P)2019 Lume Books Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Military Suspense Thriller & Suspense War & Military

Listeners also enjoyed...

 Kydd cover art
A Talent for Trouble cover art
The King's Coat cover art
The Colonial Post-Captain cover art
Napoleon's Run cover art
Mr Midshipman Fury cover art
Midshipman Bolitho cover art
Lieutenant Fury cover art
A Ship for the King cover art
The First to Land cover art
By the Mast Divided cover art
A Shred of Honour cover art
Badge of Glory cover art
The Devil's Own Luck cover art
All stars
Most relevant  
This is a bit different than your typical Hornblower esk story. Fletcher is more human, a bit of a rogue. There is also a bigger plot. It is very much told in a human voice. I can't attest to its literary genius, but that isn't what I want from this sort of thing anyway.

The production has not had a final edit, so there is a sentence repeated every page. A bit like a live reading. A shame because it is otherwise we'll recoded with clear and even sound levels. but it didn't actually annoy me and still worth listening to.

The narrator is good. A little young, I associate him with children's stories (which this is not really). He slightly slaughters nautical terms, but I guess these are arguable anyway. As I say it is still worth listening to.

Point to note, this appears to be most definitely the first book, despite some confusion on Audible that suggested to me that there is 5 unpublished ones before, maybe they are a different character.

I hope they record the whole series (7 in the series so far).

worth a listen

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.