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Written by Patrick O'Brian - Audio book performed by Tim Pigott-Smith - Abridged Fiction - 3 CASSETTES - 5 hours

Publisher, Random House Audiobooks (October 1999)

The 20th and final installment in the Aubrey/Maturin series.

"O'Brian is not that hard a taste to acquire, but he is very tough to shake. . . . The Aubrey/Maturin series/ is a great work." --John Ferguson, Boston Globe on the hardcover edition

"This is a work of genius, and in the face of its inevitable end, I can only think with pleasure at the now 20 volumes (of the Aubrey/Mat series) on my shelf." --BookPage, J.W. Foster, November 1999 on the hardcover edition

"After a spell in the doldrums O'Brian has presented his readers with a shining jewel. Blue at the Mizzen is an intricate, multifaceted work--one of those rare novels that actually bear up under close scrutiny." --The New York Times Book Review, Amanda Foreman on the hardcover edition

Napoleon has been defeated at Waterloo, and the ensuing peace takes on an ugly complexion for Jack Aubrey: drunken, violent celebrations on the English sailors in Gibraltar; the desertion of nearly half his crew; and the sudden dimming of his own career prospects in a peacetime navy. To cap it all off, the Surprise is nearly sunk in a shattering night collision on the first leg of her journey to South America, where Aubrey and Stephen Maturin are to help Chile assert her independence from Spain. In the end, Jack's bold initiative to strike at the vastly superior Spanish fleet precipitates naval action that will determine both Chile's fate and his own.