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The Surgeon’s Mate
  • ISBN: 9780006499213
  • Pages: 416
  • Publisher: HarperCollins
  • Binding: Paperback

The Surgeon’s Mate

The Aubrey/Maturin Series: Book VII

Patrick O’Brian
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Loving someone, in a time of war and divided loyalties, can be the greatest risk of all.

Ordered home by despatch vessel, Captain Jack Aubrey and ship’s surgeon Stephen Maturin have been tasked with bringing the news of the latest victory in the war with America back to the government in Britain. But Maturin is a marked man for the havoc he has wrought upon the French intelligence network in the New World, and the attentions of two privateers who pursue their ship soon become menacing.

‘A swelling tide of intrigue and adventure in the best tradition.’ Guardian



O’Brian’s World

O’Brian’s mastery of language is most wonderful of all. He manages to capture that mixture of toughness and grace which, for me at least, makes formal eighteenth-century English so attractive....

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