Post Captain
"Master and Commander raised almost dangerously high expectations, Post Captain triumphantly surpasses them...a brilliant book."—Mary Renault\ "We've beat them before and we'll beat them again." In 1803 Napoleon smashes the Peace of Amiens, and Captain Jack Aubrey, R. N., taking refuge in France from his creditors, is interned. He escapes from France, from debtor's Prison, from a possible mutiny, and pursues his quarry straight into the mouth of a French-held harbor.
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"Master and Commander raised almost dangerously high expectations, Post Captain triumphantly surpasses them...a brilliant book."—Mary RenaultRichard Snow"The best historica novel ever written." -- New York Times
\ Boston GlobeI 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\ \ \ \ \ New RepublicPatrick O’Brian is unquestionably the Homer of the Napoleonic wars.\ \ \ Taranaki Herald [New Zealand]One of the finest seafaring novels of the Napoleonic wars.\ \ \ \ \ SlateI devoured Patrick O’Brian’s 20-volume masterpiece as if it had been so many tots of Jamaica grog.— Christopher Hitchens\ \ \ \ \ New York Times[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\ \ \ \ \ Washington PostThe Aubrey-Maturin series… far beyond any episodic chronicle, ebbs and flows with the timeless tide of character and the human heart.— Ken Ringle\ \ \ \ \ Chicago Sun-TimesThere is not a writer alive whose work I value over his.— Stephen Becker\ \ \ \ \ New York Times Book ReviewThe 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\ \ \ \ \ Richard Snow"The best historica novel ever written." -- New York Times\ \
