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The Letter of Marque

Aubrey-Maturin, Book 12

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The Letter of Marque

By: Patrick O'Brian
Narrated by: Robert Hardy
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 Jack Aubrey is a naval officer, a post-captain of experience and capacity. When The Letter of Marque opens he has been struck off the Navy List for a crime he has not committed. With Aubrey is his friend and ship's surgeon Stephen Maturin, who is also an unofficial British intelligence agent. Maturin has bought for Aubrey his old ship the Surprise, so that the misery of ejection from the service can be palliated by the command of what Aubrey calls a 'private man-of-war', a letter of marque, a privateer. Together they sail on a voyage which, if successful, might restore Aubrey to the rank, and the raison d'être, whose loss he so much regrets.

Around these simple, ostensibly familiar elements Patrick O'Brian has written a novel of great narrative power, exploring his extraordinary world once more, in a tale full of human feeling and rarely matched in its drama.

©1988 Patrick O'Brian (P)1999 HarperCollins UK Espionage Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Medical Medical & Forensic Military Sea Adventures Spies & Politics Suspense Thriller & Suspense War & Military
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"Delicacy and generosity of feeling are constant themes in O'Brian's novels." The Letter of Marque is both serious and light-hearted, true and sentimental, as comic opera can be. (London Review of Books)
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