num_pages: 312
description: Captain Jack Aubrey 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, the surgeon and secret agent Stephen Maturin, take passage to England in a despatch 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 #6)
characters: Stephen Maturin, Jack Aubrey
genres: Adventure, British Literature, Historical, Maritime, War, Historical Fiction, Audiobook, Literature, Fiction, Military Fiction
ratings_count: 13270
series: Aubrey & Maturin
publisher: HarperCollins