Aubrey-Maturin · Book 11
The Reverse of the Medal
- Published
- 1 January 1986
- Pages
- 287
- ISBN-13
- 9780006499268
- Type
- novel
About this book
"The Reverse of the Medal" (1986, 287 pages) is the eleventh Aubrey-Maturin novel, arriving as O'Brian's continuous narrative of Jack's rise and Stephen's covert intelligence work entered its second decade — the series by this point spans the Mediterranean, the East Indies and South America.
Its place in Aubrey-Maturin
The Reverse of the Medal is book 11 in the Aubrey-Maturin series. It follows The Far Side of the World. It is followed by The Letter of Marque. 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 9780786178186
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780393309607
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781324020516