The Fortune of War

Name: The Fortune of War
Brand: Penguin Random House
Availability: InStock
Author: Patrick O'Brian
ISBN: 9780375417047

Author: Patrick O'Brian

Narrator: Tim Pigott-Smith

Abridged: 5 hr 23 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Random House Audio

Published: 07/05/2000

Categories: Fiction, Historical Fiction

Synopsis

Captain Jack Aubrey, R.N., arrives in the Dutch East Indies to find himself appointed to the command of the fastest and best-armed frigate in the navy. He and his friend Stephen Maturin take passage for England in a dispatch vessel. But the War of 1812 breaks out while they are en route. Bloody actions precipitate them both into new and unexpected scenes where Stephen's past activities as a secret agent return on him with a vengeance.

"They're funny, they're exciting, they're informative. There are legions of us who gladly ship out time and time and time again under Captain Aubrey." –The New Yorker

About The Author

Patrick O’Brian’s many novels include Testimonies, The Golden Ocean, and The Unknown Shore, in addition to twenty volumes in the highly respected Aubrey/Maturin series. O’Brian wrote acclaimed biographies of Pablo Picasso and Sir Joseph Banks and translated many works from the French, among them the novels and memoirs of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean Lacouture’s biography of Charles de Gaulle. Mr. O’Brian died in January 2000.

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