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Set in the Royal Navy during the early 19th Century's Napoleonic Wars, O'Brian's epic,  twenty-volume "masterpiece" (David Mamet,  New York Times) traces the enduring friendship between naval officer Jack Aubrey and physician (and spy) Stephen Maturin. Their sharp wit, heart-stopping action,  and exquisitely rendered backdrop have earned millions of devoted fans worldwide as well as comparisons from C. S. Forester,  to Jane Austen,  to Shakesp...

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British naval officer Jack Aubrey and surgeon Stephen Maturin, with his great love, Diana Villiers, speed home to England with news of their latest victory over the Americans. But Maturin is a marked man for the havoc he has wrought in the French intelligence network in the New World, and the trio run into trouble when they attract the menacing attention of two American privateers. The chase that follows through the fogs and shallows of the Gr...

Commissioned to rescue Governor Bligh of Bounty fame, Captain Jack Aubrey and his friend and 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 mountain seas, the Dutchman clo...

Captain Jack Aubrey is ashore on half pay without a command-until Stephen Maturin arrives with secret orders for Aubrey to take a frigate to the Cape of Good Hope under a commodore's pennant, there to mount an expedition against the French-held islands of Mauritius and La Réunion. But the difficulties of carrying out his orders are compounded by two of his own captains-Lord Clonfert, a pleasure-seeking dilettante, and Captain Corbett, whose se...

Set in the Royal Navy during the early 19th Century's Napoleonic Wars, O'Brian's epic,  twenty-volume "masterpiece" (David Mamet,  New York Times) traces the enduring friendship between naval officer Jack Aubrey and physician (and spy) Stephen Maturin. Their sharp wit, heart-stopping action,  and exquisitely rendered backdrop have earned millions of devoted fans worldwide as well as comparisons from C. S. Forester,  to Jane Austen,  to Shakesp...

Set in the Royal Navy during the early 19th Century's Napoleonic Wars, O'Brian's epic,  twenty-volume "masterpiece" (David Mamet,  New York Times) traces the enduring friendship between naval officer Jack Aubrey and physician (and spy) Stephen Maturin. Their sharp wit, heart-stopping action,  and exquisitely rendered backdrop have earned millions of devoted fans worldwide as well as comparisons from C. S. Forester,  to Jane Austen,  to Shakesp...

After leaving his friends to join his family on a military base, Dan Metzger is thrown into a dangerous situation. Assisting the government, he travels back to Buffalo, New York to search for answers about the zombie apocalypse. Remaining devoted to his brother, a lieutenant commander in the Navy, Metzger begins to question the government's motives. Their soldiers search for answers at great peril, while food and supplies grow scarce.His frien...

In The Mauritius Command, Captain Jack Aubrey is ashore on half-pay without a command until his friend, occasional intelligence agent Stephen Maturin, arrives with secret orders for Aubrey to take a frigate to the Cape of Good Hope under a Commodore''s pennant. But the difficulties of carrying out his orders are compounded by two of his own captains: one a pleasure-seeking dilettante, the other liable to provoke the crew to mutiny.

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