2009 # 75

Patrick O'Brian - Post Captain - Finished - 5/31/2009

This was a busy one. Aubrey is ashore with out a ship, he and Dr. Maturin are on the outs at time over the Ladies Sophia and Diana, Aubrey's prize agent runs off with the money Jack was due and now the bailiffs are after him, he is given a poorly constructed experimental ship by an enemy in the admiralty office and sent on a poorly conceived mission but manages to pull it off despite a raw and under staffed crew of impressed landsmen. This an more keeps the action flowing as cannons boom and smoke billows in action at sea and Jack ducks the bailiffs ashore.

ISBN - 0-393-30706-9, Fiction, Pages - 496, Print Size - R, Rating - 4.5