Patrick O'Brian

Patrick O'Brian was a British novelist best known for his Aubrey-Maturin series of historical novels set during the Napoleonic Wars.

"Of course I do know it is the French who are so wicked; but there are all these people who keep coming and going - the Austrians, the Spaniards, the Russians. Pray, are the Russians good now? It would be very shocking - treason no doubt - to put the wrong people in my prayers."

Patrick O'Brian