#3 in the immortal series. When Steven and Jack get ready for action, the reader's heart starts racing, just like when Coffin Ed and Gravedigger when decide there was nothing left do but fight the bad guys in a Chester Himes novel. Also, O'Brian has an amazing narrative gift, the story just moves effortlessly, like few other writers can pull off. Plus, there is the travel aspect: in this one our two heroes - not Rocky and Bullwinkle - visit India.

Third in the series of Aubrey-Maturin adventures, this book is set among the strange sights and smells of the Indian subcontinent and the distant waters ploughed by the ships of the East India Company.

Third in the series of Aubrey-Maturin adventures, this book is set among the strange sights and smells of the Indian subcontinent, and in the distant waters ploughed by the ships of the East India Company. Aubrey is on the defensive, pitting wits and seamanship against an enemy enjoying overwhelming local superiority. But somewhere in the Indian Ocean lies the price that could make him rich beyond his wildest dreams: the ships sent by Napoleon to attach the China Fleet...

"The best historical novels ever written." NY Times Book Review

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