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  • The Thirteen-Gun Salute

  • Aubrey-Maturin, Book 13
  • By: Patrick O'Brian
  • Narrated by: Robert Hardy
  • Length: 2 hrs and 51 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (6 ratings)

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The Thirteen-Gun Salute

By: Patrick O'Brian
Narrated by: Robert Hardy
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Publisher's summary

Entrusted with a secret mission, the perils of the South China Sea await.

In the fight against the French, a treaty with the Sultan of Pulo Prabang, a piratical Malay state, may prove decisive. Captain Jack Aubrey and ship’s surgeon Stephen Maturin, along with a hand-picked crew, must survive the dangers of the high forties and convey a diplomatic envoy to ensure this key alliance, but dangers, both natural and man-made, will dog their every move.

When echoes of the past return, no one is safe.

‘If Jane Austen had written rousing sea yarns, she would have produced something very close to the prose of Patrick O'Brian.'
Time

‘Written with the most engaging enthusiasm that can’t fail to give pleasure to anybody who enjoys historical adventure flavoured with more than a dash of realism.’
Sunday Times

©1999 Patrick O'Brian (P)1999 HarperCollins UK
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Critic reviews

"As entertaining as its predecessors. O'Brian is a master of the narrative of action, but he has sustained interest through this long sequence of novels by expanding the genre to which they belong so that it can include much else besides." (London Review of Books)

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