The Reverse of the Medal

by Patrick O'Brian Narrated by Patrick Tull

Overview

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.

Editorial Reviews

Chicago Sun-Times - Stephen Becker

"The Aubrey-Maturin series is a great novel. In relentlessly beautiful prose it creates, or re-creates, a world of people about whom we care intensely, and who come alive all over the globe…You will meet nothing like O’Brian in all literature."

London Review of Books - John Bayley

"Bubbles at the brim, stimulating, tender, thought-provoking."

Product Details

BN ID:	2940170701506
Publisher:	Recorded Books, LLC
Publication date:	03/11/2008
Series:	Aubrey/Maturin , #11
Edition description:	Unabridged

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