"The finest writer of sea-stories in the English language."J. de Courcy Ireland
All Patrick O'Brian's strengths are on parade in this novel of action and intrigue, set partly in Malta, partly in the treacherous, pirate-infested waters of the Red Sea. While Captain Aubrey worries about repairs to his ship, Stephen Maturin assumes the center stage for the dockyards and salons of Malta are alive with Napoleon's agents, and the admiralty's intelligence network is compromised. Maturin's cunning is the sole bulwark against sabotage of Aubrey's daring mission.
"Splendid adventures...polished, historically accurate, and intensely pleasurable."Kirkus Reviews
"O'Brian's narrative...provides endlessly varying shocks and surprisescomic, grim, farcical and tragic. An essential of the truly gripping book for the narrative addict is the creation of a whole, solidly living world for the imagination to inhabit, and O'Brian does this with prodigal specificity and generosity."A. S. Byatt
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"The finest writer of sea-stories in the English language."J. de Courcy Ireland
All Patrick O'Brian's strengths are on parade in this novel of action and intrigue, set partly in Malta, partly in the treacherous, pirate-infested waters of the Red Sea. While Captain Aubrey worries about repairs to his ship, Stephen Maturin assumes the center stage for the dockyards and salons of Malta are alive with Napoleon's agents, and the admiralty's intelligence network is compromised. Maturin's cunning is the sole bulwark against sabotage of Aubrey's daring mission.
"Splendid adventures...polished, historically accurate, and intensely pleasurable."Kirkus Reviews
"O'Brian's narrative...provides endlessly varying shocks and surprisescomic, grim, farcical and tragic. An essential of the truly gripping book for the narrative addict is the creation of a whole, solidly living world for the imagination to inhabit, and O'Brian does this with prodigal specificity and generosity."A. S. Byatt
Imprint | W W Norton & Co Inc |
Country of origin | United States |
Series | Aubrey/Maturin Novels, 9 |
Release date | 1996 |
Availability | Expected to ship within 10 - 15 working days |
First published | November 1994 |
Authors | Patrick O'Brian |
Dimensions | 218 x 152 x 33mm (L x W x T) |
Format | Hardcover |
Pages | 338 |
Edition | Norton uniform ed |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-393-03709-8 |
Barcode | 9780393037098 |
Categories | |
LSN | 0-393-03709-6 |