The Fortune of War

by Patrick O'Brian

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Series (with order)

Aubrey-Maturin (6)

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Original publication date

1979

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People/Characters

Jack Aubrey

Stephen Maturin

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First words

The warm monsoon blew gently from the east, wafting HMS Leopard into the bay of Pulo Batang.

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T.J. Binyon (Times Literary Supplement)

Iris Murdoch

John Bayley

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Amazon.com (ISBN 0006499198, Paperback)

This time it's the War of 1812 that gets in the way of Captain Jack Aubery's plans. Caught en route to England in a dispatch vessel, Aubrey and Maturin are soon in the thick of a typically bloody naval engagement. Next stop: an American prison, from which only Maturin's cunning allows them to engineer an exit.

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