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Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. To commemorate the 40th anniversary of these beginning, with Master and Commander, these evocative stories are being re-issued in paperback with smart new livery. This is actually the fourth book in the series.Captain Jack Aubrey is ashore on half-pay with out a command - until his friend, and occasional intelligence agent, Stephen Maturin, arrives with secret orders for Aubrey to have a frigate to the Cape of Good Hope, under a Commodore's pennant. However the difficulties of undertaking his orders are compounded by two of his own captains - Lord Clonfert, a pleasure-seeking dilettante, and Captain Corbett, whose severity can push his crews to the verge of mutiny.Based on the actual campaign of 1810 in the Indian Ocean, O'Brian's attention to detail of eighteenth-century life ashore with sea is meticulous. This tale is really as beautifully written so that as gripping as any in the series; it also stands on its own as a superlative work of fiction.
