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.
- ISBN10 039303707X
- ISBN13 9780393037074
- Publish Date 26 January 1996 (first published December 1981)
- Publish Status Inactive
- Out of Print 22 September 2016
- Publish Country US
- Imprint WW Norton & Co
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 384
- Language English