When Captain Jack Aubrey is disciplined for a crime he didn't commit, his friend Maturin and he set sail on a desperate mission against the French.

"Fine stuff...[The Letter of Marque] leaves the devotee of naval fiction eager for sequels." —Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World Captain Jack Aubrey

Captain Jack Aubrey, a brilliant and experienced officer, has been struck off the list of post-captains for a crime he did not commit. His old friend Stephen Ma

It is the 1650's and Spain considers the Caribbean to be its own private sea. Ned Yorke, a loyal Royalist living in Barbados has a small vessel and hunted by Ro