2022/091: False Colors -- Alex Beecroft

2022/091: False Colors -- Alex Beecroft

The naval routine around him was familiar as the rhythm of his breathing. But he began to dimly discern another world within it; jealousies too sharp for friendship, smiles too radiant. [loc. 1987]

1762: Lieutenant John Cavendish is awarded his first command, the Meteor (née Météore) and sent off, with an untried crew, to harry the Barbary slavers of Algiers. He hopes that his new lieutenant, Alfie Donwell, will be a reliable right-hand man.

Alfie likes the look of his new captain, and hopes that John is amenable to seduction.

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