The Reverse of the Medal

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.

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Patrick O'Brian
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.11.1994
• EAN: 9780393037111
• ISBN: 978-0-393-03711-1
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 218 mm x 28 mm
• Weight: 470 g
• Series: Aubrey-Maturin (Hardcover); Aubrey-Maturin (Hardcover); Aubrey/Maturin Novels
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general