The Wine-Dark Sea

At the opening of a voyage filled with disaster and delight, Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin are in pursuit of a privateer sailing under American colours through the Great South Sea. Stephen's objective is to set the revolutionary tinder in South America ablaze to relieve the pressure on the British government which has blundered into war with the young and uncomfortably vigorous United States. This is the 16th Aubrey novel.