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After escaping a military base, Dan Metzger and his friends attempt to find safety outside of Virginia. They travel to the Adirondacks where family members and sanctuary might await them, but Metzger worries that the military might pursue him. His thoughts also dwell on his brother, who was left behind during a military assignment, literally in the grasp of the undead. Despite the isolated destination, new foes down the mountain may pose a thr...

Patrick O'Brian's first ever novel about the sea is published in paperback for the first time in forty years.

This is the story of Richard Temple - prisoner of war, sometime adventurer, lover and artist - told with insight, empathy and drama by one of the world's master storytellers.

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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 Clari...

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At the outset of this adventure filled with disaster and delight, Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin pursue an American privateer through the Great South Sea. The strange color of the ocean reminds Stephen of Homer's famous description, and portends an underwater volcanic eruption that will create a new island overnight and leave an indelible impression on the reader's imagination. Their ship, the Surprise, is now also a privateer, the better to...

Napoleon, escaped from Elba, pursues his enemies across Europe like a vengeful phoenix. If he can corner the British and Prussians before their Russian and Austrian allies arrive, his genius will lead the French armies to triumph at Waterloo. In the Balkans, preparing a thrust northwards into Central Europe to block the Russians and Austrians, a horde of Muslim mercenaries is gathering. They are inclined toward Napoleon because of his conversi...

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Amiens-traktaten har sikret freden mellem England og Frankrig, så da Jack Aubrey og Stephen Maturin vender hjem efter deres togt i Middelhavet, kan de tage hul på det søde overklasseliv. Men da Jack med ét slag mister alt, hvad han ejer, må han flygte til Frankrig for at undgå at blive sat i gældsfængsel. Og da krigen atter bryder ud, går der ikke lang tid, før han også er jaget vildt i nabolandet mod syd ...Patrick O'Brians romanserie om kapt...

Den første kommando" er begyndelsen på serien om kaptajn Jack Aubrey og hans ven, skibslægen Stephen Maturin. Her præsenteres læserne for hele det farverige univers i begyndelsen af 1800-tallet, da de to mænd møder hinanden for første gang under en koncert hos guvernøren i Port Mahon på Minorca. Selvom de lægger ud som fjender, bliver det startskuddet på det venskab, der senere skal føre dem vidt omkring på utallige eventyr til havs under Napo...

Captain Jack Aubrey sets sail for the South China Sea with a new lease on life. Following his dismissal from the Royal Navy (a false accusation), he has earned reinstatement through his daring exploits as a privateer, brilliantly chronicled in The Letter of Marque. Now he is to shepherd Stephen Maturin-his friend, ship's surgeon, and sometimes intelligence agent-on a diplomatic mission to prevent links between Bonaparte and the Malay princes w...

Captain Jack Aubrey, a brilliant and experienced officer, has been struck off the list of post-captains for a crime he did not commit. His old friend Stephen Maturin, usually cast as a ship's surgeon to mask his discreet activities on behalf of British Intelligence, has bought for Aubrey his former ship the Surprise to command as a privateer, more politely termed a letter of marque. Together they sail on a desperate mission against the French,...

Captain Jack Aubrey, R. N., ashore after a successful cruise, is persuaded by a casual acquaintance to make certain investments in the City. This innocent decision ensnares him in the London criminal underground and in government espionage-the province of his friend Stephen Maturin. Is Aubrey's humiliation and the threatened ruin of his career a deliberate plot? This dark tale is a fitting backdrop to the brilliant characterization and sparkli...

The war of 1812 continues, and Jack Aubrey sets course for Cape Horn on a mission after his own heart: intercepting a powerful American frigate outward bound to play havoc with the British whaling trade. Stephen Maturin has fish of his own to fry in the world of secret intelligence. Disaster in various guises awaits them in the Great South Sea and in the far reaches of the Pacific: typhoons, castaways, shipwrecks, murder, and criminal insanity.

All Patrick O'Brian's strengths are on parade in this novel of action and intrigue, set partly in Malta, partly in the treacherous, pirate-infested waters of the Red Sea. While Captain Aubrey worries about repairs to his ship, Stephen Maturin assumes the center stage for the dockyards and salons of Malta are alive with Napoleon's agents, and the admiralty's intelligence network is compromised. Maturin's cunning is the sole bulwark against sabo...

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