Treason's Harbour (Aubrey/Maturin Novels #9)

Patrick O'Brian

$15.95

Publication Date: April 17th, 1992

Publisher:

W. W. Norton & Company

ISBN:

9780393308631

Pages:

368

Description

"Every [Aubrey-Maturin] book is packed to absolute straining with erudition, wit, history, and thunderous action." —Joe Hill

All Patrick O'Brian's strengths are on parade in this novel of action and intrigue, set partly in Malta, partly in the treacherous, pirate-infested waters of the Red Sea. While Captain Aubrey worries about repairs to his ship, Stephen Maturin assumes the center stage for the dockyards and salons of Malta are alive with Napoleon's agents, and the admiralty's intelligence network is compromised. Maturin's cunning is the sole bulwark against sabotage of Aubrey's daring mission.

About the Author

One of our greatest contemporary novelists, Patrick O’Brian is the author of the twenty volumes of the best-selling Aubrey/Maturin series, as well as many other books, including Testimonies, The Golden Ocean, The Unknown Shore, and biographies of Joseph Banks and Picasso.

Praise for Treason's Harbour (Aubrey/Maturin Novels #9)

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

I devoured Patrick O’Brian’s

20-volume masterpiece as if it had been so many tots of Jamaica grog.
— Christopher Hitchens - Slate

I fell in love with his writing straightaway, at first with Master and Commander. It wasn’t primarily the Nelson and Napoleonic period, more the human relationships. . . . And of course having characters isolated in the middle of the goddamn sea gives more scope. . . . It’s about friendship, camaraderie. Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin always remind me a bit of Mick and me.

— Keith Richards

O’Brian’s Aubrey-Maturin volumes actually

constitute a single 6,443-page novel, one that should have been on those lists

of the greatest novels of the 20th century.
— George Will

O'Brian's narrative...provides endlessly varying shocks and surprises—comic, grim, farcical and tragic. An essential of the truly gripping book for the narrative addict is the creation of a whole, solidly living world for the imagination to inhabit, and O'Brian does this with prodigal specificity and generosity.
— A. S. Byatt

[O’Brian’s] Aubrey-Maturin series, 20 novels of

the Royal Navy in the Napoleonic Wars, is a masterpiece. It will outlive most

of today’s putative literary gems as Sherlock Holmes has outlived

Bulwer-Lytton, as Mark Twain has outlived Charles Reade.
— David Mamet - New York Times

The best historical novels ever written. . . .

On every page Mr. O’Brian reminds us with subtle artistry of the most important

of all historical lessons: that times change but people don’t, that the griefs

and follies and victories of the men and women who were here before us are in

fact the maps of our own lives.
— Richard Snow - New York Times Book Review

The Aubrey-Maturin series . . . far beyond any

episodic chronicle, ebbs and flows with the timeless tide of character and the

human heart.
— Ken Ringle - Washington Post

There is not a writer alive whose work I value

over his.
— Stephen Becker - Chicago Sun-Times

Patrick O’Brian is unquestionably the Homer of

the Napoleonic wars.
— James Hamilton-Paterson - New Republic

It has been something of a shock to find

myself—an inveterate reader of girl books—obsessed with Patrick O’Brian’s

Napoleonic-era historical novels. . . . What keeps me hooked are the evolving

relationships between Jack and Stephen and the women they love.
— Tamar Lewin - New York Times