When a traitor walks your deck, who'll be the one to clear him off it? or What happens when your comrades are more dangerous than your enemies?
Alexander Porterfield may be one of the rising stars of Nelson's navy, but his relationship with his first lieutenant, Tom Anderson, makes him vulnerable. To blackmail, to the exposure of their relationship---and to losing Tom, either in battle or to another ship. When sudden danger strikes---from the English rather than the French---where should a man turn?