The Hundred Days'If we had only two or three of O'Brian's Aubrey Maturin series, we would count ourselves lucky; with six or seven the author would be safely among the greats of historical fiction. But this is his nineteenth volume!' WILLIAM WALDEGRAVE, Literary Review Following the extraordinary success of The Yellow Admiral, this latest Aubrey Maturin novel brings alive the sights and sounds of North Africa as well as the great naval battles in the days immediately