![]() ![]() Aubrey's adventures in escaping from France and the debtors' prison will grip the reader as fast as his unequalled actions at sea. ![]() ![]() He flees to the continent to seek refuge: instead he finds himself a hunted fugitive as Napoleon has ordered the internment of all Englishmen in France. Their comfortable existence, however, is cut short when Jack is overnight reduced to a pauper with enough debts to keep him in prison for life. He and his friend Stephen Maturin, surgeon and secret agent, begin to live the lives of country gentlemen, hunting, entertaining and enjoying more amorous adventures. Post Captain is the second Aubrey-Maturin novel, and O’Brian had clearly much more of an idea that he was going to be writing something long, and began setting up romantic complications. Patrick O’Brian was born in 1914 and published his first book, Caesar, when he was only fifteen.In the 1960s he began work on the idea that, over the next four decades, evolved into the twenty-novel long AubreyMaturin series (with an extra unfinished volume published posthumously). Post Captain, the second novel in his remarkable Aubrey/Maturin series, led Mary Renault to write: 'Master and Commander raised dangerously high expectations Post Captain triumphantly surpasses them.' This tale begins with Jack Aubrey arriving home from his exploits in the Mediterranean to find England at peace following the Treaty of Amiens. Patrick O'Brian is regarded by many as the greatest historical novelist now writing. ![]()
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