The Ionian Mission
14 December 2021
Territory Rights — Worldwide excluding Canada and the British Commonwealth.
Description
"O'Brian is one author who can put a spark of character into the sawdust of time, and The Ionian Mission is another rattling good yarn." —Stephen Vaughan, The Observer
Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin return in this novel to the seas where they first sailed as shipmates. But Jack is now a senior captain commanding a line-of-battle ship in the Royal Navy’s blockade of Toulon, and this is a longer, harder, colder war than the dashing frigate actions of his early days. A sudden turn of events takes him and Stephen off on a hazardous mission to the Greek Islands, where all his old skills of seamanship and his proverbial luck when fighting against odds come triumphantly into their own.
Reviews
"Patrick O’Brian is unquestionably the Homer of the Napoleonic wars." — James Hamilton-Paterson, New Republic
"[The Aubrey/Maturin series] offers readers the naive pleasures of The Three Musketeers or Sherlock Holmes—that is, high adventure and characters who become our friends for life—while providing the more complex rewards of serious fiction." — Mark Horowitz, New York Times Book Review