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HMS Surprise
First published 1973
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.
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