The Commodore - (Aubrey/Maturin Novels) by Patrick O'Brian (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>In the 17th novel in O'Brian's bestselling series of naval tales, Captain Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin, having survived a long and desperate adventure in the Great South Sea, return to England. For Jack, it's a happy homecoming. But for Stephen, it is disastrous, as he learns his little daughter is autistic, and his wife, Diana, unable to bear the situation, has disappeared.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Having survived a long and desperate adventure in the Great South Sea, Captain Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin return to England to very different circumstances. For Jack it is a happy homecoming, at least initially, but for Stephen it is disastrous: his little daughter appears to be autistic, incapable of speech or contact, while his wife, Diana, unable to bear this situation, has disappeared, her house being looked after by the widowed Clarissa Oakes.<br /><br /> Much of <em>The Commodore</em> takes place on land, in sitting rooms and in drafty castles, but the roar of the great guns is never far from our hearing. Aubrey and Maturin are sent on a bizarre decoy mission to the fever-ridden lagoons of the Gulf of Guinea to suppress the slave trade. But their ultimate destination is Ireland, where the French are mounting an invasion that will test Aubrey's seamanship and Maturin's resourcefulness as a secret intelligence agent.<br /><br /> The subtle interweaving of these disparate themes is an achievement of pure storytelling by one of our greatest living novelists.<br /><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>Having survived a long and desperate adventure in the Great South Sea, Captain Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin return to England to very different circumstances. For Jack it is a happy homecoming, at least initially, but for Stephen disastrous: his little daughter appears to be autistic, incapable of speech or contact, while his wife, Diana, unable to bear this situation, has disappeared, her house being looked after by the widowed Clarissa Oakes. Much of The Commodore takes place on land, in sitting rooms and drafty castles, but the roar of the great guns is never far from our hearing. Aubrey and Maturin are sent on a bizarre decoy mission to the fever-ridden lagoons of the Gulf of Guinea to suppress the slave trade, but their ultimate destination is Ireland. There the French are mounting an invasion that will test Aubrey's seamanship and Maturin's resourcefulness as a secret intelligence agent, and the climax of the story is one of those grand and thrilling fleet actions on which the supremacy of the British Navy was founded.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><em>The Commodore</em> is so satisfying...because it is crowded with so many different kinds of pleasures. O'Brian's genius is in his ability to arrange all this material upon the well-constructed frame of an adventure plot....A lyric poet working in the epic form.--John Ferguson "Boston Sunday Globe"<br><br>I haven't read novels [in the past ten years] except for all of the Patrick O'Brian series. It was, unfortunately, like tripping on heroin. I started on those books and couldn't stop.--E. O. Wilson "Boston Globe"<br>
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