Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin, veterans now of many battles, return in this novel to the seas where they first sailed as shipmates. But Jack is now a senior captain commanding a line-of-battle ship in the Royal Navy's blockade of Toulon, and this is a longer, harder, colder war than the dashing frigate actions of his early days. A sudden turn of events takes him and Stephen off on a hazardous mission to the Greek Islands, where all his old skills of seamanship and his proverbial luck when fighting against odds come triumphantly into their own.
- ISBN10 0393037088
- ISBN13 9780393037081
- Publish Date 26 January 1996 (first published 28 June 1982)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint WW Norton & Co
- Format Hardcover (Deckle Edge)
- Pages 384
- Language English