The Ionian Mission (Aubrey & Maturin #8)
Author: Patrick O'Brian
Desc: Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin veterans now of many battles return in this novel to the seas where they first sailed as shipmates. But Jack is now a senior captain commanding a line-of-battle ship in the Royal Navy's blockade of Toulon and this is a longer harder colder war than the dashing frigate actions of his early days. A sudden turn of events takes him and Stephen off on a hazardous mission to the Greek Islands where all his old skills of seamanship and his proverbial luck when fighting against odds come triumphantly into their own.