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  • The Thirteen Gun Salute

  • Aubrey/Maturin Series, Book 13
  • By: Patrick O'Brian
  • Narrated by: Tim Pigott-Smith
  • Length: 5 hrs and 8 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (29 ratings)

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The Thirteen Gun Salute

By: Patrick O'Brian
Narrated by: Tim Pigott-Smith
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Captain Jack Aubrey sets sail for the South China Sea with a new lease on life. Following his dismissal from the Royal Navy, he has earned reinstatement through his daring exploits as a privateer. Now he is to shepherd Stephen Maturin - ship's surgeon, sometime intelligence agent, and now unofficial adviser to His Britannic Majesty's envoy - on a diplomatic mission to prevent links between Bonaparte and the Malay princes which would put English merchant shipping at risk.

The journey 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 their ship of a reef; and at the barbaric court of Pulo Prabang a classic duel of intelligence agents unfold: the French envoys, well entrenched in the Sultan's good graces, against the savage cunning of Maturin.

The heart of The Thirteen Gun Salute is the story of a friendship, and it is here that we have the most perfect window on the soul of that age. Maturin's unsparing, melancholy intelligence mirrors the scientific rationalism of the Enlightenment; Aubrey, bluff, competent, and endlessly courageous, embodies the fierce the fierce energy of the dawning century. Again and again the listener is refreshed by their enthusiasms and wit, their music, quarrels, and laughter.

The thirteenth installment of Patrick O'Brian's hugely successful Aubrey/Maturin series.

Don't miss the rest of the Aubrey/Maturin series.
©1989 Patrick O'Brian (P)2001 Random House Inc., Random House AudioBooks, a Division of Random House Inc.
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"The best historical novels ever written." (The New York Times Book Review)

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Another great story from Patrick O'Brian. Overall, the reader was very good except for being wildly off on Maturin's voice. There is no relationship between the character and the voice used here.

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Another triumph by Patrick O'Brian

Another brilliant tale of Aubrey and Maturin full of literary and emotional pleasures. I have read the series from start to finish a number of times with deepening pleasure, with one notable exception and that is the author's strange decision to deprive the reader of how Dr. Maturin killed the French spies, Wray and Lederman. After being taken on this part of the great series--Wray's treachery--an underlying theme through many of the novels, and with no other discourse have them both delivered for dissection was surely one of O'Brian's few disappointments.

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