- Patrick O’Brian, Read by Robert Hardy

Aubrey-Maturin - The Fortune of War (Aubrey-Maturin, Book 6): Abridged edition

By Patrick O’Brian, Read by Robert Hardy
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Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely hailed as the greatest series of historical novels ever written. This naval adventure finds Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin in the Dutch East Indies and there’s trouble brewing.

Captain Jack Aubrey, RN, arrives in the Dutch East Indies to find himself appointed to the command of the fastest and best-armed frigate in the Navy. He and his friend Stephen Maturin take passage for England in a despatch vessel. But the war of 1812 breaks out while they are en route. Bloody actions precipitate them both into new and unexpected scenes where Stephen’s past activities as a secret agent return on him with a vengeance.

Author: Patrick O’Brian
Format: CD-Audio
Release Date: 23 Oct 2014
Pages: None
ISBN: 978-0-00-726174-1
Price: £14.99, £12.49 (Export Price) , €None
Detailed Edition: Abridged edition
Patrick O’Brian, until his death in 2000, was one of our greatest contemporary novelists. He is the author of the acclaimed Aubrey–Maturin tales and the biographer of Joseph Banks and Picasso. He is the author of many other books including Testimonies, and his Collected Short Stories. In 1995 he was the first recipient of the Heywood Hill Prize for a lifetime’s contribution to literature. In the same year he was awarded the CBE. In 1997 he received an honorary doctorate of letters from Trinity College, Dublin. He lived for many years in South West France and he died in Dublin in January 2000.

“Robert Hardy’s reading gives a real feel of salt spray, not to mention a taste of the lash.”Times 6/12/97 -

‘Patrick O’Brian writes as brilliantly as ever. The Fortune of War is a marvellously full-flavoured, engrossing book, which towers over its current rivals in the genre like a three-decker over a ship’s longboat.’T.J. Binyon, Times Literary Supplement -

‘No one else writing in the genre today can match his erudition, humour, inventiveness and flair. With his marvellous grasp of contemporary idiom and of the feeling of the period, he brings to the stories a power and authenticity that can never fail to captivate.’Kevin Myers, Irish Sunday Independent -