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Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin return in this novel to the seas where they first sailed as shipmates. But Jack is now a senior captain, commanding a line-of-battle ship sent out to reinforce the squadron blockading Toulon, and this is a longer, harder, colder war than the dashing frigate action of his early days… A sudden turn of events takes him and Stephen off on a hazardous mission to the Greek islands. All his old skills of seamanship – and luck when fighting against odds – come triumphantly into their own as the story concludes with some fierce and thrilling action.