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The war with Revolutionary France has begun — and Frederick Harris intends to make his name in it.
Eighteen years old, ambitious and already seasoned by years at sea, Frederick is still waiting for the lieutenant’s commission that will secure his future in the Royal Navy.
His chance comes off the coast of France. When a routine raid turns into a desperate fight, Frederick seizes the initiative and helps snatch victory from disaster. His reward is promotion and a posting aboard the captured sloop Athene.
Sent to the West Indies, Frederick enters a world of prize money, disease and brutal fighting. Each success brings greater responsibility as he battles privateers, raids enemy shores and learns the unforgiving realities of command.
But fortune at sea can turn in an instant.
When Athene finds herself facing a French seventy-four — a ship of the line vastly more powerful than the little British sloop ''' Frederick is drawn into a battle he cannot hope to win.
Outgunned, outmatched and with nowhere to run, Frederick is about to discover the true price of ambition.
The Friendly Sea is the first volume in Andrew Wareham’s Duty and Destiny series, a gripping Age-of-Sail adventure of ambition, courage and war at sea.
Genre: Historical
Eighteen years old, ambitious and already seasoned by years at sea, Frederick is still waiting for the lieutenant’s commission that will secure his future in the Royal Navy.
His chance comes off the coast of France. When a routine raid turns into a desperate fight, Frederick seizes the initiative and helps snatch victory from disaster. His reward is promotion and a posting aboard the captured sloop Athene.
Sent to the West Indies, Frederick enters a world of prize money, disease and brutal fighting. Each success brings greater responsibility as he battles privateers, raids enemy shores and learns the unforgiving realities of command.
But fortune at sea can turn in an instant.
When Athene finds herself facing a French seventy-four — a ship of the line vastly more powerful than the little British sloop ''' Frederick is drawn into a battle he cannot hope to win.
Outgunned, outmatched and with nowhere to run, Frederick is about to discover the true price of ambition.
The Friendly Sea is the first volume in Andrew Wareham’s Duty and Destiny series, a gripping Age-of-Sail adventure of ambition, courage and war at sea.
Genre: Historical
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