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Struck off of the Navy List for a crime he did not commit, Jack Aubrey takes command of an privateer and starts a voyage which may, just may, restore him to the rank. Jack Aubrey is a naval officer, a post-captain of experience and capacity. IF THE Letter of Marque opens he has been struck off of the Navy List for a crime he hasn't committed. With Aubrey is his friend and ship's surgeon Stephen Maturin, who's also an unofficial British intelligence agent. Maturin has bought for Aubrey his old ship the Surprise, so that the misery of ejection from the service can be palliated by the command of what Aubrey calls a 'private man-of-war' -- a letter of marque, a privateer. Together they sail over a voyage which, if successful, might restore Aubrey to the rank, and the raison d'etre, whose loss he very much regrets. Around these simple, ostensibly familar elements Patrick O'Brian has written a novel of great narrative power, exploring his extraordinary world once again, in an account packed with human feeling and rarely matched in its drama.
