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Book Synopsis"O'Brian is one author who can put a spark of character into the sawdust of time, and
The Ionian Mission is another rattling good yarn."—Stephen Vaughan,
The ObserverTrade Review"I haven’t read novels [in the past ten years] except for all of the Patrick O’Brian series. It was, unfortunately, like tripping on heroin. I started on those books and couldn’t stop." -- E. O. Wilson - Boston Globe
"O'Brian's books are as atypical of conventional sea stories as Conrad's. Like John LeCarré, he has erased the boundary separating a debased genre from 'serious' fiction. O'Brian is a novelist, pure and simple, one of the best we have." -- Mark Horowitz - Los Angeles Times Book Review
"They're funny, they're exciting, they're informative...There are legions of us who gladly ship out time and time again under Captain Aubrey." -- The New Yorker
