As Captain Jack Aubrey cools his heels in a Maltese harbour, awaiting repairs to his ship, war rages on. Fearing that hostilities will end before he has any further opportunities for fame and fortune, Aubrey accepts several secret missions, but all is not as it seems.
Will a double agent be the undoing of both Jack Aubrey and his friend, ship's surgeon Stephen Maturin?
'This is O'Brian at his brilliant entertaining best. When he is on this form the rest of us who write of the Napoleonic conflict might as well give up and try a new career.'
BERNARD CORNWELL
'Captain Aubrey and his surgeon, Stephen Maturin, compose one of those complex and fascinating pairs of characters which have inspired thrilling stories of all kinds since the Iliad.'
IRIS MURDOCH & JOHN BAYLEY
ISBN: | 9780006499237 |
Publication date: | 3rd March 1997 |
Author: | Patrick OBrian |
Publisher: | HarperCollinsPublishers an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 361 pages |
Series: | Aubrey-Maturin |
Genres: |
Historical adventure fiction Napoleonic War fiction Espionage and spy thriller Fiction based on or inspired by true events Historical Fiction |