The Hundred Days

by Patrick O'Brian
Category: "Fiction - Historical"
Pages:281
Year of Publication:1998
Date Read:01/05/2000
Notes:Nineteenth in the Aubrey-Maturin series. Napoleon, escaped from Elba, pursues his enemies across Europe like a vengeful phoenix. 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. In the Balkans, preparing a thrust northwards into Central Europe to block the Russians and Austrians, a horde of Muslim mercenaries is gathering. 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 that, accoring to British intelligence, is on its way via camel caravan to the coast of North Africa. It is this gold that Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin must at all costs intercept. The fate of Europe hinges on their desperate mission.
My Rating: 9

Reviews for The Hundred Days

Review - Hundred Days, The

As good as the rest of the series, although the off-hand way two of the regular characters are killed off is a bit stunning. Stephen's wife, Diana, has died in a carriage accident. As part of the current mission, he travels into Africa to convince a local Bey not to allow a shipment of gold across his territory. The Bey agrees, and the gold has to travel by sea. Jack, in the Surprise chases it down and takes it. Bondon, Jack's coxwain, is also killed.

Reviewed by Roger on 2000-01-06 07:55:13

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