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Title: The Commodore Condition: New ISBN-10: 1324021551 EAN: 9781324021551 ISBN: 9781324021551 Publisher: WW Norton & Co Format: Paperback Release Date: 16/12/2022 Description: Having survived a long and desperate adventure in the Great South Sea, Captain Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin return to England to very different circumstances. For Jack it is a happy homecoming, at least initially, but for Stephen it is disastrous: his little daughter appears to be autistic, incapable of speech or contact, while his wife, Diana, unable to bear this situation, has disappeared, her house being looked after by the widowed Clarissa Oakes. Much of The Commodore takes place on land, in sitting rooms and in drafty castles, but the roar of the great guns is never far from our hearing. Aubrey and Maturin are sent on a bizarre decoy mission to the fever-ridden lagoons of the Gulf of Guinea to suppress the slave trade. But their ultimate destination is Ireland, where the French are mounting an invasion that will test Aubrey's seamanship and Maturin's resourcefulness as a secret intelligence agent. The subtle interweaving of these disparate themes is an achievement of pure storytelling by one of our greatest living novelists.
Language: English Country/Region of Manufacture: US Item Height: 211mm Item Length: 140mm Item Width: 20mm Item Weight: 245g Author: Patrick O'Brian Genre: Fiction Book Series: Aubrey/Maturin Novels Topic: Historical Fiction, Crime Thrillers & Mystery Release Year: 2022
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