Book
The Surgeon’s Mate
First published 1980
Carrying news of a British victory, Aubrey and Maturin sail from North America while American privateers and French agents pursue them. Stephen’s intelligence successes have made him a marked man, and Diana Villiers remains caught inside the same clandestine struggle.
A chase across the Atlantic leads to shipwreck, capture and imprisonment in Paris’s Temple. Escape requires naval courage, intelligence contacts and a decision about Stephen and Diana’s long-delayed future.
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