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HMS Surprise

by Patrick O’Brian

Book 3 in the Aubrey–Maturin Novels series.

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After helping rescue an intelligence agent from French custody, Jack Aubrey takes command of HMS Surprise on a mission carrying an ambassador to the East Indies. Stephen Maturin accompanies him as surgeon and covert operative, with Diana Villiers’s uncertain fate complicating his private life.

The voyage crosses the Atlantic and Indian Oceans through storms, illness and hostile waters. In the East Indies, Jack confronts Admiral Linois’s stronger French squadron while protecting a valuable fleet of merchant ships.

Historical periods

Napoleonic Era War of the Third Coalition Royal Navy in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars

Genres

Espionage Exploration & Survival Fiction Maritime Fiction War Fiction

Historical people

Charles-Alexandre Léon Durand Linois1761–1848

Series reading order

Books in Aubrey–Maturin Novels

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