"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, veterans now of many battles, 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.

Whether close to home or far away, there are no safe harbours while Napoleon seeks to dominate the known world.

Historisk søroman. Jack Aubrey er nu Commander på et linieskib, der skal undsætte Toulon, men den farefulde tur går også til de græske øer.

A sudden turn of events takes Jack Aubrey, now a senior captain, and his friend, surgeon, and intelligence agent Stephen Maturin, on a dangerous mission to the Greek islands.

"The finest writer of sea-stories in the English language."--J. de Courcy Ireland

Aubrey and Maturin return to the seas where they first sailed as shipmates, but to a harder war than during their younger days. A sudden turn of events takes them on a mission to the Greek islands, where Aubrey's old skills of seamanship and luck come triumphantly into their own.