"...You can’t think we’d misuse it?”
“Because we’re English gentlemen—honourable and virtuous, moral and true? Oh, Ned. Ask any nation we’ve absorbed into the Imperium. You may get an answer that shocks you.” [loc. 3723]
Third in the 'Lancaster's Luck' series that began with The Gilded Scarab and continued with The Jackal's House. This episode is less of a romance and more of a swashbuckling adventure: Rafe Lancaster and Ned Winter spend most of the first half of the book apart, Rafe learning to live with his role as First Heir of House Stravaigor -- and watching his father's decline -- while Ned is off in Egypt, investigating links between the Antikythera device and the ancient cult of Thoth.
There isn't much development of their relationship, but there is plenty of excitement: enemy agents! perilous landings in crippled airships! explorations of a mystical pyramid that makes Rafe wonder whether 'that Wells chap' was right about visitors from other planets! a plucky younger sister! (Oh, Rafe, she really shouldn't have been able to trick you so easily.)
I miss the coffee shop, and Londinium. But Rafe's star is rising and I look forward to more steampunky, slashy adventure.
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