num_pages: 336
description: "A marvellously full-flavoured, engrossing book, which towers over its current rivals in the genre like a three-decker over a ship's longboat."― Times Literary Supplement Captain Jack Aubrey, R. N., arrives in the Dutch East Indies to find himself appointed to the command of the fastest and best-armed frigate in the Navy. He and his friend Stephen Maturin take passage for England in a dispatch vessel. But the War of 1812 breaks out while they are en route. Bloody actions precipitate them both into new and unexpected scenes where Stephen's past activities as a secret agent return on him with a vengeance.
language: English
title: The Fortune of War
titlecomplete: The Fortune of War (Aubrey/Maturin Book 6)
characters: Jack Aubrey, Stephen Maturin
genres: Fiction, Maritime, British Literature, Historical, War, Historical Fiction, Literature, Adventure, Military Fiction, Audiobook
ratings_count: 13267
series: Aubrey & Maturin
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company