Dust jacket in good condition. First edition THUS, fourth printing. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Secure packaging for safe delivery.
Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin return in this novel to the seas where they first sailed as shipmates. But Jack is now a senior captain commanding a line-of-battle ship in the Royal Navy's blockade of Toulon, and this is a longer, harder, colder war than the dashing frigate actions of his early days...