Aubrey-Maturin · Book 12
The Letter of Marque
- Published
- 1 January 1988
- Pages
- 280
- ISBN-13
- 9780007275557
- Type
- novel
About this book
The twelfth novel in the sequence, "The Letter of Marque" (1988, 280 pages) followed "The Reverse of the Medal" into print, continuing Patrick O'Brian's unbroken chronicle of Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin rather than jumping ahead or filling in gaps in their story.
Its place in Aubrey-Maturin
The Letter of Marque is book 12 in the Aubrey-Maturin series. It follows The Reverse of the Medal. It is followed by The Thirteen-Gun Salute. See the full Aubrey-Maturin reading order.
Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin novels follow the friendship of Jack Aubrey, a bluff, brilliant, and perpetually broke Royal Navy officer, and Stephen Maturin, the ship's surgeon who is also a naturalist and, unbeknownst to most of the crew, a British intelligence agent. The two meet as strangers at a concert in Menorca in 1800 — nearly duelling before becoming friends — and the twenty novels that follow chart Jack's rise through the Napoleonic-era Navy and Stephen's parallel career gathering intelligence across…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780007275557
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780786219254
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780007429073