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There are 21 books in the Captian Jack Aubrey and Dr. Stephen Maturin series by Patrick O'Brian. The books have been cited here before. So what brings the Truelove to the foredeck? Just another suberb reading by Simon Vance and the story of the naval and historical times around 1800-1820 by Patrick O'Brian. There is seamanship aplenty but overlayed is the nature of a stow-away female convict, Clarissa Harvill ... and what she can reveal about the a mole in the British naval service [seems the British have had a bad case of the Philby's disease for hundreds if not thousands of years]. This time the spymanship intrigue is most entertaining - and of course the reading by Simon Vance is a Master and Commander performance.