![]() " history, all encompassed in a magnificently rounded and complex work of fiction. The result is entertainment, excitement, and an intriguing exercise in "what if. He succeeds in grafting his familiar, ever compelling principal characters to an historical event of tumultuous significance: the final defeat of Napoleon. Selby wins the election and the impostor becomes the U.S. The Asian dictator Li-Chin Sung develops a technique to shape the face and the fingerprints of any man and has Selby murdered and replaced by one skilled spy. Aubrey's quarry is a swift xebek of the Algerian corsairs: through the Straights of Gibraltar and into the Atlantic, he chases them to a bleak and apparently impregnable fortress island.īoldly conceived and brilliantly executed, The Hundred Days is Patrick O'Brian's most ambitious book yet, and surely one of his most rewarding. During a presidential campaign in the United States, candidate William Lyons Selby seems the probable winner. In Algiers, Maturin navigates the violent currents of oriental politics and braves a desert journey that ends in a moonlit lion hunt high in the Atlas Mountains. This, the 19th novel was published in 1998, 29 years after the first book in the series ( Master and Commander) came out (1969). The fate of Europe hinges on their desperate mission. Patrick OBrian, The Hundred Days One more full novel to go in this series and two surprising deaths. It is this gold that Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin must at all costs intercept. They are inclined toward Napoleon because of his conversion to Islam during the Egyptian campaign, but they will not move without a shipment of gold ingots from Sheik Ibn Hazm which, according to British intelligence, is on its way via camel caravan to the coast of North Africa. In the Balkans, preparing a thrust northwards into Central Europe to block the Russians and Austrians, a horde of Muslim mercenaries is gathering. If he can corner the British and Prussians before their Russian and Austrian allies arrive, his genius will lead the French armies to triumph at Waterloo. ![]() Napoleon, escaped from Elba, pursues his enemies across Europe like a vengeful phoenix. Napoleon escapes from Elba, and the fate of Europe hinges on a desperate mission: Stephen Maturin must ferret out the French dictator's secret link to the powers of Islam, and Jack Aubrey must destroy it.
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