"What lifts The Truelove into the highest ranks of fiction is what it shares with the
rest of its author's writing: page after page of unmistakably original insights into the mysteries of the
world."Chicago Tribune

"The writing is as strong and delightfully various as the people and plots. And everythingskies and seas
and ports and creaturesis vividly, sensuously present."London Evening Standard

"This entry in O'Brian's late-18th-century seafaring series will delight fans, while offering newcomers a good
place to jump in."Publishers Weekly

In this fifteenth installment of the Aubrey-Maturin series, a British whaler has been captured by an ambitious
chief in the Sandwich Islands at French instigation, and Captain Aubrey is dispatched with the Surprise
to restore order. But stowed away in the cable-tier is an escaped female convict.

To the officers, Clarissa Harvill is an object of awkward courtliness and dangerous jealousies. Only Aubrey's
friend, Dr. Stephen Maturin, can fathom Clarissa's secrets: her crime, her personality, and a clue to identifying
a highly placed French spy in London.