The Surgeon's Mate

by Patrick O'Brian

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Aubrey-Maturin (7)

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1980

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Jack Aubrey

Stephen Maturin

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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0786177845, Audio CD)

Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin are ordered home by dispatch vessel to bring the news of their latest victory to the government. But Maturin is a marked man for the havoc he has wrought in the French intelligence network in the New World, and the attention of two privateers soon becomes menacing. The chase that follows through the fogs and shallows of the Grand Banks is tenseand unexpected in its culmination. Meanwhile in Paris, Diana Villiers anxiously awaits Maturins safe return.

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