The Surgeons Mate, Patrick OBrian
The Surgeons Mate, Patrick OBrian
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The Surgeon's Mate

Author: Patrick O'Brian

Narrator: Patrick Tull

Unabridged: 15 hr 5 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 12/19/2003

Synopsis

Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin are ordered home by dispatch vessel to bring the news of their latest victory to the government. But Maturin is a marked man for the havoc he has wrought in the French intelligence network in the New World, and the attention of two privateers soon becomes menacing. The chase that follows through the fogs and shallows of the Grand Banks is as tense, and as unexpected in its culmination, as anything Patrick O'Brian has written.

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 Karl on August 17, 2023

O'Brian was really hitting his stride. Here, Aubrey and Maturin return to England on 'the packet,' where, after extended domestic issues, Maturin recommends Captain Aubrey for a dangerous mission in the Baltic. Aubrey welcomes the chance to return to the sea and they're off and running in breathtaki......more

Goodreads review by Katherine on January 20, 2021

My love for the Aubrey/Maturin series is evergreen, I do an annual reread of all twenty and this is where I was on my reread when January rolled around so... A favorite for foregrounding Diana somewhat. I thing O'Brien's characterization of her is possibly the most inconsistent of any of his major ch......more

Goodreads review by Terry on December 09, 2019

There’s a lot going on in O’Brian’s seventh entry of the Aubrey-Maturin series. We start more or less immediately after the close of the last volume showcasing what several O’Brian fans have opined: that in many ways this series of books is more like one very long novel, with each book comprising a......more

Goodreads review by Clemens on December 18, 2021

Read this book in 2008, and its the 7th brilliant volume of the amazing "Aubrey/Maturin" series. Ordered home by dispatch vessel to bring news about their latest victory to the government, when they are assailed by the French on all sides. The reason is that Maturin is a marked man by the French for h......more

Goodreads review by Wealhtheow on October 04, 2011

Jack is deeply dismayed when a ill-judged fling in Nova Scotia threatens to come back to England and reveal his perfidy. He's thrilled to be ordered back to sea, this time to transport his friend Stephen to co-opt a Catalan base to England's side. Meanwhile, Stephen has just returned from a trip to......more

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