The Fortune of War

Name: The Fortune of War
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Rating: 5 (3 reviews)
Author: Patrick O'Brian
ISBN: 9781440780950

Author: Patrick O'Brian

Series: Aubrey/Maturin #6

Narrator: Patrick Tull

Unabridged: 13 hr 12 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 12/19/2003

Categories: Fiction, Historical Fiction

Synopsis

En route home, Aubrey and Maturin find themselves in deep trouble when their ship engages the U.S.S. Constitution in battle-and loses. Aubrey, now a POW in Boston, waits for word of a prisoner exchange, while Maturin renews a most cherished friendship.

About Patrick O'Brian

Patrick O’Brian (1914–2000), a translator and author of biographies, was best known as the author of the highly acclaimed Aubrey–Maturin series of historical novels. Set in the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars ,this twenty-volume series centers on the enduring friendship between naval officer Jack Aubrey and physician and spy Stephen Maturin. The Far Side of the World, the tenth book in the series, was adapted into a 2003 film directed by Peter Weir and starring Russell Crowe and Paul Bettany. The film was nominated for ten Oscars, including Best Picture. He wrote acclaimed biographies of Pablo Picasso and Sir Joseph Banks. He also translated many works from the French, among them the novels and memoirs of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean Lacouture’s biographies of Charles de Gaulle.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Clemens on December 18, 2021

Read this book in 2008, and its the 6th marvellous volume of the delightful "Aubrey/Maturin" series. This book is set in the year AD 1812, and war has once again broken out between England and its allies against France of Napoleon Bonaparte. At first Captain Jack Aubrey, RN, arrives in the Dutch East......more

Goodreads review by Joshua on January 24, 2019

This is a good book. O'Brian is a master of period detail and description. **Spoilers Below** O'Brian moves between frenzied action and contemplativeness with ease. We watch as a ship catches fire and burns, the crew scramble for the lifeboats, the captain is last seen firing off the cannons to keep......more

Goodreads review by Terry on February 09, 2024

4.5 stars In the wake of the last episode, er volume, we find Jack and Stephen pulling into the port of Pulo Batang in Java having completed their Australian mission (alas off-page, so we have no chance to see what, if any, their interactions with the infamous Captain, now Governor, Bligh may have b......more