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"The old master has people again in the hand of his hand."—Los Angeles Times (a Best Book of 1999)Napoleon has been defeated at Waterloo, and the following peace brings with it both desertion of almost 1 / 2 of Captain Aubrey's team and the sudden dimming of Aubrey's job leads in a peacetime navy. Once the Shock is almost sunk on her method to South America—where Aubrey and Stephen Maturin are to simply help Chile claim her freedom from delay occasioned by fixes reaps a harvest of unusual effects. The South American journey is just a desperate event; and ultimately Port's daring effort to hit in the greatly superior Spanish navy precipitates a magnificent naval activity that'll decide both Chile's destiny and his own.