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Ashore between cruises, Captain Jack Aubrey is persuaded to sink some money into an investment scheme. Soon this innocent decision enmeshes him in various criminal and even treasonous enterprises, which threaten to destroy his entire career. Bad luck? A deliberate plot? Read this latest installment of the Aubrey-Maturin saga to find out.
Stephen Becker, Chicago Sun-Times
Make no mistake: the Aubrey-Maturin series is a great novel. In relentlessly beautiful prose it creates, or recreates, a world of people about whom we care intensely, and who come alive all over the globe, on seven seas and seven continents. It modulates from hot combat to the velleities of love, from the fo'c'sle to the quarterdeck, from debtor's prison to fortunes in jewelry or gold, from rage against tyranny and treason to the deep joys of honor, friendship and loyalty.... You will meet nothing like O'Brian in all literature...
The Reverse of the Medal
The Reverse of the Medal,Patrick O'Brian,W. W. Norton & Company,0393309606,English Historical Fiction,Fiction,Fiction - Historical,General,Historical - General,Sea & Ocean,English,Novels, other prose & writers: from c 1900 -
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