 In May 1803, Lewrie is back at sea in command of the 38-gun frigate HMS "Reliant" and is part of a squadron sent to the Caribbean as the Napoleonic Wars resume.Lewrie's attraction is a series of continual struggles—at first glance, we find him in January 1780 abed with his half-sister by adoption as part of a thin plot by his father to get his 17-year-old bastard son out to sea (and thereby to acquire access to the estate of a grandmother that Lewrie knows nothing of).Throughout the first novel, "The King's Coat," Lewrie tries to adapt to his unwelcome new life as a midshipman in the Royal Navy, and eventually finds that he does have some talent for it.