Resumen
Jack Aubrey&8217;s long service is at last rewarded: he is promoted to the rank of Commodore, and given a squadron of ships to command. His mission is twofold &8211; to make a large dent in the slave trade off the coast of Africa and, on his return, to intercept a French fleet set for Bantry Bay with a cargo of weapons for the disaffected among the Irish. But might the nature of the secret mission on which the squadron is sent present a conflict of loyalties for the complicated and inscrutable figure of Stephen Maturin, Jack&8217;s indispensable ship&8217;s surgeon and close friend? Invention and surprise follow at every turn in this tale of nineteenth-century seamanship, as rich, as compelling, as masterly as any of its predecessors.
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