Treason's Harbour [Paperback]

Stranded in Malta, Captain Jack Aubrey and surgeon Stephen Maturin must be careful, for the salons and dockyards are infested with Napoleons spies, and there is a traitor in the British intelligence network. This installment of Patrick OBrians 20-volume masterpiece (Christopher Hitchens) takes Aubrey and Maturin sailing on the pirate-plagued waters of the Red Sea, trudging over the Sinai Peninsula and even the depths of the sea floor in their efforts to stay one step ahead of the treachery afoot. Every [Aubrey-Maturin] book is packed to absolute straining with erudition, wit, history, and thunderous action. Joe Hill An entire, discrete and compelling world, a totally believable entity which one might wish to inhabit. The deep pleasures of OBrians writing [are]: his wonderfully exact language, his erudition, his delight in human idiosyncrasy, his fine hand with character, his zest for the nitty-gritty of life and for life itself. US