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"Jack's assignment: to capture the Indian Ocean islands of R�union and Mauritius from the French. That campaign forms the narrative thread of this rollicking sea saga. But its substance is more beguiling still..."�Elizabeth Peer, Newsweek Captain Jack Aubrey is ashore on half pay without a command�until Stephen Maturin arrives with secret orders for Aubrey to take a frigate to the Cape of Good Hope under a commodore's pennant, there to mount an expedition against the French-held islands of Mauritius and La R�union. But the difficulties of carrying out his orders are compounded by two of his own captains�Lord Clonfert, a pleasure-seeking dilettante, and Captain Corbett, whose severity pushes his crew to the verge of mutiny.