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  • 04/2011
  • 9781611791426
  • 281 pages
  • $19.95
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  • 05/2011
  • 9781611791471
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  • 04/2011
  • 9781611791426
  • 292 pages
  • $19.95
Linda Collison
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Surgeon's Mate: Book Two of the Patricia MacPherson Nautical Adventure Series
It's late October, 1762. After surviving the deadly siege of Havana, Patrick MacPherson and the rest of the ship's company are looking forward to a well deserved liberty in New York. But what happens in that colonial town will change the surgeon's mate's life in ways she could never have imagined. Using a dead man's identity, young Patricia Kelley MacPherson is making her way as Patrick MacPherson, surgeon's mate aboard His Majesty's frigate Richmond. She's become adept at bleeding, blistering, and amputating limbs -- but if her cover is blown, she'll lose both her livelihood and her berth aboard the frigate. The ship's gunner alone knows her secret -- or does someone else aboard suspect that Patrick MacPherson is not the man he claims to be? Surgeon's Mate, book two of the Patricia MacPherson Nautical Adventure Series, is a work of fiction inspired in part by the historical accounts of actual 17th and 18th century soldiers, sailors and marines who were in fact women.
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O'Brian's superb series on the early-19th-century adventures of Jack Aubrey, a Royal Navy officer, and his friend Stephen Maturin, Navy surgeon and naturalist, continues with a look at the darker side of Maturin's life: his work in British intelligence. Aubrey, Maturin and Diana Villiers (Maturin's fickle and enigmatic love) are passengers on a packet ship from Nova Scotia to England when two American privateers give chase. They are hunting Maturin, who has compromised U.S. spy networks. The Americans are eluded, and upon reaching England, Maturin sets off to France. Armed with safe conduct papers, he lectures on natural history and installs Villiers in Paris. Suspicious French agents try to bait Maturin but he refuses to be lured into an indiscretion. On his return to London, Maturin is sent to woo Catalan officers and troops from the French cause to the British. Aubrey provides transport, but despite his best support, including staging a splendid charade chase on the water, the mission takes a nasty turn when their ship founders; seized by the French, Maturin and Aubrey are hauled off to Paris's infamous Temple Prison. (Jan.)
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06/06/2017
Book Three in the Patricia MacPherson Nautical Adventure Series

Rhode Island Rendezvous; Book three of the Patricia MacPherson Nautical Adventure Series is coming soon, from Old Salt Press.

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Audio Details
  • 04/2011
  • 9781611791426
  • 281 pages
  • $19.95
Open Ebook Ebook Details
  • 05/2011
  • 9781611791471
  • pages
  • $9.95
Paperback Book Details
  • 04/2011
  • 9781611791426
  • 292 pages
  • $19.95
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