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Another solid, charming entry in the series, flocked with high-seas adventure and O'Brian's signature straight-faced humor. (

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KMWeiland | Dec 5, 2009 |

The Aubrey/Maturin series picks up where The Fortune of War left off, and the surgeon's mate of the title is not Stephen Maturin's surgical assistant but his on again/off again romantic interest Diana Villiers.I'm always turned of by the Villiers storylines because she is a dull and disagreeable character. Fortunately the Maturin-Villiers story is balance by some seafaring adventure and battles, spying and intrigue, and even our lead characters locked in a French prison. I'm a bit thrown by the timeline as it seems this book takes place 4 years prior to The Fortune of War but it's a rollicking good tale all the same (

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Othemts | Nov 5, 2009 |

Please see my comments on Vol. 1, Master and Commander. (

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deckled | Nov 1, 2009 |

mulliner | Oct 17, 2009 |

Another good one: This series is great and this was another chapter in the ongoing story of Maturin and Aubrey. Their adventures are of another world and provide a great contrast to other books.

iayork | Aug 9, 2009 |

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Aubrey-Maturin (7)

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The Surgeon's Mate

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Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Grimsholm, Baltic Sea

Paris, France

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The long harbour of Halifax in Nova Scotia on a long, long summer's day, and two frigates gliding in on the tide of flood under their topsails alone: the first, since she had belonged to the United States navy until a few days before, wore the Stars and Stripes under a white ensign; the second showed no more than her own shabby colours, for she was HMS Shannon, the winner in that short and bloody action with the Chesapeake.

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Read by Tim Pigott-Smith
Three Cassettes, 5 hours

The 7th installment in the Aubrey/Maturin Series.

Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin are ordered home by dispatch vessel to bring the news of their latest vitory to the government. But Maturin is a marked man for the havoc he has wrought in the Fren intelligence network in the New World, and the attentions of two privateers soon become menacing. the chase that follows is as thrilling and unexpected as anything O'Brian has written.

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