Henry Carter Hull

Captain Jack Aubrey is ashore on half pay without a command - until Stephen Maturin arrives with secret orders for Aubrey to take a frigate to the Cape of Good Hope under a commodore's pennant, there to mount an expedition against the French-held islands of Mauritius and La Reunion. But the difficulties of carrying out his orders are compounded by two of his own captains - Lord Clonfert, a pleasure-seeking dilettante, and Captain Corbett, whose severity...

Jack Aubrey, a senior captain commanding a line-of-battle ship in the Royal Navy's blockade of Toulon, is sent off with his old shipmate Stephen Maturin on a hazardous mission to the Greek Islands.

In The Letter of Marque, Jack is once again aboard his beloved Surprise but stripped of his post captaincy for a crime he did not commit. Bought by Stephen, the Surprise has become a privateer. Sailing into French waters, the two concoct a desperate mission which, if successful, may redeem Aubrey from his state of disgrace. A nighttime battle with an unusual climax, a jewel of great value and Stephen's fondness for opium make this segment of O'Brian's...

Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin are ordered home by dispatch vessel to bring the news of their latest victory to the government. But Maturin is a marked man for the havoc he has wrought in the French intelligence network in the New World, and the attention of two privateers soon becomes menacing. The chase that follows through the fogs and shallows of the Grand Banks is as tense, and as unexpected in its culmination, as anything Patrick O'Brian has...

First sent on a decoy mission to the Gulf of Guinea, Aubrey's seamanship and Maturin's resourcefulness as a secret intelligence agent are tested at their true destination, Ireland, where the French are mounting an invasion.

Captain Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin set sail for Peru, where they encounter volcanic eruptions, Maturin's illegitimate son, and danger.

Captain Jack Aubrey, ashore after a successful cruise, becomes entangled in the London criminal underground and in government espionage when he is persuaded by a casual acquaintance to make some investments in London.

Captain Jack Aubrey's hasty trip aboard a dispatch vessel from the Dutch East Indies to England where he is supposed to take command of the fastest and best-armed frigate in the Navy, is interrupted by the outbreak of the War of 1812.