Description
| Product ID: | 9780006499237 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Aubrey-Maturin |
| Title: | Treason’s Harbour |
| Authors: | Author: Patrick O’Brian |
| Page Count: | 368 |
| Subjects: | Espionage and spy thriller, Espionage & spy thriller, Historical adventure fiction, Napoleonic War fiction, Historical fiction, Historical adventure, Napoleonic War fiction, Historical fiction, Red Sea, Mediterranean Sea, c 1800 to c 1900 |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Malta, in 1813, is ostensibly a safe harbour, yet the island is a nest of French spies, and even those in authority are not to be trusted. Malta, in 1813, is ostensibly a safe harbour, yet the island is a nest of French spies, and even those in authority are not to be trusted.As Captain Jack Aubrey cools his heels in a Maltese harbour, awaiting repairs to his ship, war rages on. Fearing that hostilities will end before he has any further opportunities for fame and fortune, Aubrey accepts several secret missions, but all is not as it seems.Will a double agent be the undoing of both Jack Aubrey and his friend, ship’s surgeon Stephen Maturin?‘This is O’Brian at his brilliant entertaining best. When he is on this form the rest of us who write of the Napoleonic conflict might as well give up and try a new career.’BERNARD CORNWELL‘Captain Aubrey and his surgeon, Stephen Maturin, compose one of those complex and fascinating pairs of characters which have inspired thrilling stories of all kinds since the Iliad.’IRIS MURDOCH & JOHN BAYLEY |
| Imprint Name: | HarperCollins |
| Publisher Name: | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 1997-03-03 |
