The Thirteen Gun Salute

by O'BRIAN, PATRICKPIGOTT-SMITH, TIM

• ISBN13: 9780375415999
• ISBN10: 0375415998
• Edition: Abridged
• Format: Audio CD
• Copyright: 2001-06-01
• Publisher: Random House Audio

Summary

Captain Jack Aubrey sets sail for the South China Sea with a new lease on life. Following his dismissal from the Royal Navy (on 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 which would put English merchant shipping at risk.

The journey of the Diane encompasses a great and satisfying diversity of adventures. 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 in the barbaric court of Pulo Prabang a classic duel of intelligence agents unfolds: the French envoys, well entrenched in the Sultan's good graces, against the savage cunning of Stephen Maturin.

Author Biography

<b>Patrick O’Brian</b>’s many novels include <i>Testimonies, The Golden Ocean, </i>and <i>The Unknown Shore</i>, in addition to twenty volumes in the highly respected Aubrey/Maturin series. O’Brian wrote acclaimed biographies of Pablo Picasso and Sir Joseph Banks and translated many works from the French, among them the novels and memoirs of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean Lacouture’s biography of Charles de Gaulle. Mr. O’Brian died in January 2000.