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The Reverse of the Medal

Patrick O'Brian

Captain Jack Aubrey, R. N., ashore after a successful cruise, is persuaded by a casual acquaintance to make certain investments in the City. This innocent decision ensnares him in the London criminal underground and in government espionage--the province of his friend Stephen Maturin. Is Aubrey's humiliation and the threatened ruin of his career a deliberate plot? This dark tale is a fitting backdrop to the brilliant characterization and sparkling dialogue which O'Brian's readers have come to expect.

Book Details

  • Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
  • Publish Date: Nov 17th, 1994
  • Pages: 288
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.48in - 5.96in - 1.07in - 1.04lb
  • EAN: 9780393037111
  • Categories: Historical - General

About the Author

O'Brian, Patrick: - One of our greatest contemporary novelists, Patrick O'Brian is the author of the twenty volumes of the best-selling Aubrey/Maturin series, as well as many other books, including Testimonies, The Golden Ocean, The Unknown Shore, and biographies of Joseph Banks and Picasso.

Praise for this book

I haven't read novels [in the past ten years] except for all of the Patrick O'Brian series. It was, unfortunately, like tripping on heroin. I started on those books and couldn't stop.--E. O. Wilson "Boston Globe"