false 77433 23 Read by Tim Pigott-Smith<br>Three Cassettes, 5 hours<br><br>The 7th installment in the Aubrey/Maturin Series.<br><br>Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin are ordered home by dispatch vessel to bring the news of their latest vitory to the government. But Maturin is a marked man for the havoc he has wrought in the Fren intelligence network in the New World, and the attentions of two privateers soon become menacing. the chase that follows is as thrilling and unexpected as anything O'Brian has written. 5277606 1980 The Surgeon's Mate (Aubrey/Maturin Book 7) total:1024|5:464|4:416|3:132|2:11|1:1| 1024 4403 1268 40 77433 0393308200 9780393308204 942 28 4.30 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170900167m/77433.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77433.The_Surgeon_s_Mate 5 1 false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2000 Wed Nov 12 20:12:13 -0800 2008 Mon Apr 20 17:36:19 -0700 2009 Fortune of War by Patrick O'Brian that Jack is without command after having sunk the Waakzaanheid, a Dutch 74. At home in England he finds he has been cheated by a scoundrel and Stephen is busily taking on a new espionage assignment that also gets Jack a ship, the Ariel. Jack h...more...]]> 77433 0393308200 9780393308204 942 28 4.30 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170900167m/77433.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77433.The_Surgeon_s_Mate 3 0 false Wed Feb 28 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sun Dec 21 19:31:52 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 21 19:32:54 -0800 2008 The Surgeon's Mate is my latest Aubrey-Maturin read, and while I do continue with the general Aubrey-Maturin love, I have to admit I found this one a bit erratic in quality.

There's a...more...]]> 77433 0393308200 9780393308204 942 28 4.30 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170900167m/77433.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77433.The_Surgeon_s_Mate 4 0 false Sat May 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun May 03 21:52:22 -0700 2009 Sun May 03 22:08:59 -0700 2009 more...]]> 77433 0393308200 9780393308204 942 28 4.30 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170900167m/77433.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77433.The_Surgeon_s_Mate 4 1 false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Sep 02 18:49:12 -0700 2007 Sun Sep 02 18:49:12 -0700 2007 more...]]> 325717 000649921X 9780006499213 22 4 4.30 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173765643m/325717.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/325717.The_Surgeon_s_Mate 4 0 false Sun Jun 28 14:18:31 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 03 05:16:20 -0700 2009
Y...more...]]> 77433 0393308200 9780393308204 942 28 4.30 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170900167m/77433.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77433.The_Surgeon_s_Mate 5 0 false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Apr 04 21:02:36 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 04 21:02:36 -0700 2009 more...]]> 77433 0393308200 9780393308204 942 28 4.30 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170900167m/77433.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77433.The_Surgeon_s_Mate 3 0 false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Mar 18 07:37:11 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 18 07:52:05 -0700 2009 more...]]> 77433 0393308200 9780393308204 942 28 4.30 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170900167m/77433.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77433.The_Surgeon_s_Mate 5 0 false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2002 Thu Mar 19 12:15:17 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 06 14:42:51 -0700 2009
That Patrick O'Brian chose to place his characters on the sea in the not so distant past just raised the hurdle I had to leap to get to know this wonderful author.

I had never been enamored with sea stories, didn't much care for European history, ...more...]]> 325717 000649921X 9780006499213 22 4 4.30 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173765643m/325717.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/325717.The_Surgeon_s_Mate 5 0 true Wed Jan 16 07:42:06 -0800 2008 Sun Mar 16 02:23:44 -0700 2008
Just read on a bit in "The Surgeon's Mate". Finally at sea again, though every other line might as well be spelled out "doom doom doom doom doom". Of COURSE those two American privateers aren't going to go away. Of COURSE...more...]]> 2323853 0007787545 9780007787548 2 1 4.30 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1197633348m/2323853.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2323853.The_Surgeon_s_Mate 4 0 true Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 03 13:26:11 -0800 2008 Sun Feb 03 07:52:27 -0800 2008
There's a sense here that O'Brian is going over old ground. They're shipwrecked (again) and imprisoned (again!). There are even hints that Stephen is going to be tortured (again). Yet the evocative writing carries the re...more...]]> 1619325 140255849X 9781402558498 1 1 4.30 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1619325.The_Surgeon_s_Mate 0 0 false Mon Mar 09 15:15:37 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 09 15:47:21 -0700 2009 77433 0393308200 9780393308204 942 28 4.30 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170900167m/77433.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77433.The_Surgeon_s_Mate 4 0 false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Mar 09 09:53:41 -0700 2008 Sun Mar 09 09:56:38 -0700 2008
Very little o...more...]]> 77433 0393308200 9780393308204 942 28 4.30 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170900167m/77433.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77433.The_Surgeon_s_Mate 4 0 false Mon Sep 28 12:59:48 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 28 12:59:48 -0700 2009 77433 0393308200 9780393308204 942 28 4.30 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170900167m/77433.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77433.The_Surgeon_s_Mate 4 0 false Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Nov 21 06:31:25 -0800 2008 Fri Apr 17 19:05:46 -0700 2009 more...]]> 552503 1402558481 9781402558481 15 4 4.30 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175733213m/552503.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/552503.The_Surgeon_s_Mate 4 0 false Thu May 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon May 25 16:29:10 -0700 2009 Sun May 31 17:05:51 -0700 2009 77433 0393308200 9780393308204 942 28 4.30 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170900167m/77433.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77433.The_Surgeon_s_Mate 4 0 false Sun Apr 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 03 17:47:02 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 13 06:45:08 -0700 2009 77433 0393308200 9780393308204 942 28 4.30 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170900167m/77433.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77433.The_Surgeon_s_Mate 3 0 false Fri May 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 29 17:36:06 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 29 17:36:38 -0700 2009 77433 0393308200 9780393308204 942 28 4.30 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170900167m/77433.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77433.The_Surgeon_s_Mate 0 0 false Sun Aug 05 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Aug 05 12:56:00 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 05 12:56:10 -0700 2009 77433 0393308200 9780393308204 942 28 4.30 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170900167m/77433.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77433.The_Surgeon_s_Mate 5 0 false Tue Nov 25 20:15:49 -0800 2008 Tue Nov 25 20:15:57 -0800 2008 77433 0393308200 9780393308204 942 28 4.30 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170900167m/77433.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77433.The_Surgeon_s_Mate 4 0 false Fri Dec 04 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 22 18:05:01 -0800 2009 Sat Dec 05 13:01:56 -0800 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=1030098