The Commodore
Aubrey-Maturin Series, Book 15
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The Commodore
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Narrated by:
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Ric Jerrom
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By:
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Patrick O'Brian
About this listen
Having survived a long and desperate adventure in the Great South Sea, Captain Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin return to England to very different circumstances. For Jack it is a happy homecoming, at least initially, but for Stephen it is disastrous: his little daughter appears to be autistic, incapable of speech or contact, while his wife, Diana, unable to bear this situation, has disappeared, her house being looked after by the widowed Clarissa Oakes.
Much of The Commodore takes place on land, in sitting rooms and in drafty castles, but the roar of the great guns is never far from our hearing. Aubrey and Maturin are sent on a bizarre decoy mission to the fever-ridden lagoons of the Gulf of Guinea to suppress the slave trade. But their ultimate destination is Ireland, where the French are mounting an invasion that will test Aubrey's seamanship and Maturin's resourcefulness as a secret intelligence agent.
The subtle interweaving of these disparate themes is an achievement of pure storytelling by one of our greatest living novelists.
©1994 Patrick O'Brian (P)2014 Audible, LtdThird time of listening, just gets better!
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Excellent book, working my way through the series
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This series is the pinnacle of its genre. Naval battles and attendant lives and living all presented with accuracy so as to put you in the thick of it.
Utter bliss
Utterly sublime in all its parts
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Atmospheric
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Gold Coast story
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