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When Napoleon escapes from Elba, the fate of Europe hinges on a desperate mission: Stephen Maturin must ferret out the French dictator's secret link to the powers of Islam, and Jack Aubrey must destroy it. Napoleon, like a vengeful phoenix, pursues his enemies across Europe. 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, ...

Napoleon has been defeated at Waterloo, but the ensuing peace becomes ugly for Captain Jack Aubrey, with violent celebrations of the English sailors in Gibraltar and the desertion of nearly half his crew. To cap it all off, the Surprise is nearly sunk in a shattering night collision on the first leg of her journey to South America, where Jack and Stephen are to help Chile assert her independence from Spain. The delay for repairs reaps a harves...

Napoleon has been defeated at Waterloo, but the ensuing peace becomes ugly for Captain Jack Aubrey, with violent celebrations of the English sailors in Gibraltar and the desertion of nearly half his crew.

Earphones Awards winner Simon Vance juggles multiple characters, accents, and dramatic and comedic scenes with aplomb....Vance's warm, welcoming voice captures colorful characters, entertaining relationships....Readers in search of a handful of excellent companions with whom to spend many enjoyable hours will be hail and well met.

When Napoleon escapes from Elba, the fate of Europe hinges on a desperate mission: Stephen Maturin must ferret out the French dictator's secret link to the powers of Islam, and Jack Aubrey must destroy it.

Earphones Awards winner Simon Vance juggles multiple characters, accents, and dramatic and comedic scenes with aplomb....Vance's warm, welcoming voice captures colorful characters, entertaining relationships....Readers in search of a handful of excellent companions with whom to spend many enjoyable hours will be hail and well met.

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Earphones Awards winner Simon Vance juggles multiple characters, accents, and dramatic and comedic scenes with aplomb....Vance's warm, welcoming voice captures colorful characters, entertaining relationships....Readers in search of a handful of excellent companions with whom to spend many enjoyable hours will be hail and well met.

Earphones Awards winner Simon Vance juggles multiple characters, accents, and dramatic and comedic scenes with aplomb....Vance's warm, welcoming voice captures colorful characters, entertaining relationships....Readers in search of a handful of excellent companions with whom to spend many enjoyable hours will be hail and well met.

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.

Earphones Awards winner Simon Vance juggles multiple characters, accents, and dramatic and comedic scenes with aplomb....Vance's warm, welcoming voice captures colorful characters, entertaining relationships....Readers in search of a handful of excellent companions with whom to spend many enjoyable hours will be hail and well met.

Earphones Awards winner Simon Vance juggles multiple characters, accents, and dramatic and comedic scenes with aplomb....Vance's warm, welcoming voice captures colorful characters, entertaining relationships....Readers in search of a handful of excellent companions with whom to spend many enjoyable hours will be hail and well met.

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.

Captain Jack Aubrey sets sail for the South China Sea, shepherding a diplomatic mission to prevent links between Bonaparte and the Malay princes. Stephen Maturin climbs the Thousand Steps of the sacred crater of the orangutans, a killer typhoon catches Aubrey and his crew trying to work the Diane off a reef, and at the barbaric court of Pulo Prabang a classic duel of intelligence agents unfolds: the French envoys, well-entrenched in the Sultan...

If Jane Austen wrote Royal Navy yarns, they might read like this.The early-19th-century locations are fascinating, as are the evocation of period shipboard life.... Seafarers and landlubbers alike will enjoy this swift, witty tale of money and love." -- Publisher's Weekly

When Captain Jack Aubrey, R. N., ashore after a successful cruise, is persuaded to make certain investments in the city, this innocent decision ensnares him in the London criminal underground and in government espionage. Is Aubrey's humiliation and the threatened ruin of his career a deliberate plot?

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Earphones Awards winner Simon Vance juggles multiple characters, accents, and dramatic and comedic scenes with aplomb....Vance's warm, welcoming voice captures colorful characters, entertaining relationships....Readers in search of a handful of excellent companions with whom to spend many enjoyable hours will be hail and well met.

Earphones Awards winner Simon Vance juggles multiple characters, accents, and dramatic and comedic scenes with aplomb....Vance's warm, welcoming voice captures colorful characters, entertaining relationships....Readers in search of a handful of excellent companions with whom to spend many enjoyable hours will be hail and well met.

Earphones Awards winner Simon Vance juggles multiple characters, accents, and dramatic and comedic scenes with aplomb....Vance's warm, welcoming voice captures colorful characters, entertaining relationships....Readers in search of a handful of excellent companions with whom to spend many enjoyable hours will be hail and well met.