num_pages: 261
description: "The old master has us again in the palm of his hand." ― Los Angeles Times Napoleon has been defeated at Waterloo, and the ensuing peace brings with it both the desertion of nearly half of Captain Aubrey's crew and the sudden dimming of Aubrey's career prospects in a peacetime navy. When the Surprise is nearly sunk on her way to South America―where Aubrey and Stephen Maturin are to help Chile assert her independence from Spain―the delay occasioned by repairs reaps a harvest of strange consequences. The South American expedition is a desperate affair; and in the end Jack's bold initiative to strike at the vastly superior Spanish fleet precipitates a spectacular naval action that will determine both Chile's fate and his own.
language: English
title: Blue at the Mizzen
titlecomplete: Blue at the Mizzen (Aubrey & Maturin, #20)
characters: Stephen Maturin, Jack Aubrey
genres: Audiobook, Maritime, Historical, Historical Fiction, Literature, Military Fiction, War, British Literature, Adventure, Fiction
ratings_count: 7622
series: Aubrey & Maturin
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company