The Thirteen Gun Salute

As ‘The Thirteen-Gun Salute’ opens Jack Aubrey has been reinstated to his command and he and his old friend Dr Maturin are sailing on a secret mission with a hand-picked crew, most of them shipmates from the adventures and lucrative voyages of earlier years. But things will not turn out as expected.

Twists and turns, sub-plots, echoes from the past, distant waters, exotic scenes, flora and fauna to satisfy Maturin’s innocent curiousity as well as scope for his cloak and dagger work enrich the flow of this instalment of the Aubrey and Maturin novels.