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Captain Jack Aubrey sets sail for the South China Sea, shepherding Stephen Maturin's diplomatic mission to prevent links between Bonaparte and the Malay princes. A classic duel of intelligence agents unfolds.

A casual investment in the city ensnares Captain Jack Aubrey in the London criminal underground and in government espionage. Is Aubrey's humiliation and the threatened ruin of his career a deliberate plot?

With his old friend, Stephen Maturin, Jack Aubrey sails on a desperate mission against Napoleonic France which, if successful, may redeem him from the disgrace of a crime he has not committed.

Stephen Maturin is a marked man for the havoc he's wrought with the French. Soon he and Jack Aubrey are menaced by two privateers and chased through the Grand Banks.

Jack Aubrey is appointed to command the fast, best-armed frigate in the Royal Navy. He and Stephen Maturin set out for England, just as the War of 1812 breaks out and Stephen's past as a secret agent returns on him.

Jack Aubrey sets course for Cape Horn to intercept an American frigate, while Stephen Maturin has orders of his own in the world of secret intelligence. Both face impending disasters, from typhoons to murder.

While Captain Aubrey worries about repairs to his ship, Stephen Maturin's cunning is the sole bulwark against sabotage of Aubrey's daring mission, for Malta is alive with Napoleon's agents.

Jack Aubrey is commanding a ship in the Royal Navy's blockade of Toulon, but a sudden turn of events takes him and Stephen Maturin on a hazardous mission to the Greek Islands, where Aubrey's proverbial luck at fighting against odds comes to the fore.

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In response to the interest of O'Brian's many fans, here is the tantalizingly incomplete manuscript of the final Aubrey-Maturin novel that the author was writing when he died, meant to chronicle Aubrey's mission to South Africa.

This stand-alone adventure from the mighty Patrick O'Brian begins just where his devoted fans would want it to: with a sloop in the South China Sea barely surviving a killer typhoon. But the time is the 1930s and the protagonist a teenaged American boy whose missionary parents have just died. In the company of his rough, seafaring uncle and his elderly English cousin, an eminent archaeologist, young Derrick sets off in search of ancient treasu...

Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin pursue a heavy American privateer through the Great South Sea. Their ship, the Surprise, is now also a privateer, the better to escape diplomatic complications from Maturin's mission, which is to ignite the revolutionary tinder of South America. Aubrey will survive a desperate open-boat journey and come face-to-face with his illegitimate black son. Maturin, caught up in the aftermath of his failed coup, will fle...

Commissioned to rescue Governor Bligh of Bounty fame, Captain Jack Aubrey and his friend, surgeon Stephen Maturin, sail the Leopard to Australia with a hold full of convicts. Among them is a beautiful and dangerous spy and a treacherous disease that decimates the crew. With a Dutch man-of-war to windward, the undermanned, outgunned Leopard sails for her life into the freezing waters of the Antarctic, where, in mountainous seas, the Dutchman cl...

With the outbreak of peace in 1814, Captain Jack Aubrey fears he is doomed to life on shore, not his strongest suit. But just in time, an urgent dispatch orders him to Gibraltar: Napoleon has escaped from Elba. This is the eighteenth novel in the Aubrey-Maturin series.

Shipwrecked on a remote island and threatened by Malay pirates, Captain Aubrey and crew barely escape before facing a diplomatic crisis at the harrowingly dreadful penal colony in New South Wales.

When a British whaling vessel is captured in the Sandwich Islands, Captain Aubrey is dispatched with the Surprise to restore order. But stowed away onboard is an escaped female convict, and only Stephen Maturin can fathom her secrets.

Aubrey and Maturin return home to England to find that Maturin's wife has disappeared. They leave for Guinea to suppress the slave trade, but their ultimate destination is Ireland where the French are mounting an invasion.