![]() ![]() No other contemporary writer can equal Forester at this kind of storytelling.- Chicago Tribune ![]() All the while, the introspective young commander struggles to understand his new bride and mother-in-law, his officers and crew, and his own "accursed unhappy temperament" - matters that trouble him more, perhaps, than any of Bonaparte's cannonballs. Horatio Hornblower - who, at age twenty-seven, has already distinguished himself as one of the most daring and resourceful officers in the Royal Navy - commands the three-masted Hotspur on a dangerous reconnaissance mission that evolves, as war breaks out, into a series of spectacular confrontations. Napoleon is building ships and amassing an army just across the Channel. Horatio Hornblower - who, at age twenty-seven, has already distinguished himself as one of the most daring and resourceful officers in the Royal Navy - commands the three-masted Hotspur on a dangerous reconnaissance mission that evolves, as war breaks out, into a series of spectacular confrontations.Īll the while, the introspective young commander struggles to understand his new bride and mother-in-law, his officers and crew, and his own accursed unhappy temperament - matters that trouble him more, perhaps, than any of Bonaparte's cannonballs.įrom the Back Cover April 1803. Forester, a master of the genre ( New York Times). Book Synopsis Hornblower's reconnaissance mission quickly turns to warfare in this installment of the beloved series of naval adventures by C. ![]()
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