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It
is still the War of 1812. Patrick O'Brian takes his hero Jack
Aubrey and his tetchy, sardonic friend Stephen Maturin on a
voyage as fascinating as anything he has ever written. They set
course across the South Atlantic to intercept a powerful
American frigate outward bound to play havoc with the British
whaling trade.
If they do not come up with her before she rounds the Horn, they
must follow her into the Great South Sea and as far across the
Pacific as she may lead them. It is a commission after Jack's
own heart. Maturin has fish of his own to fry in the world of
secret intelligence.
Aubrey has to cope with a succession of disasters - men
overboard, castaways, encounters with savages, storms, typhoons,
groundings, shipwrecks, to say nothing of murder and criminal
insanity. That the enemy is in fact faithfully dealt with, no
one who has the honour of Captain Aubrey's acquaintance can take
leave to doubt.
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