Hornblower and the Hotspur: 03 (Hornblower Saga (Paperback)) - Softcover

Forester, C S

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0316290467 ISBN 13: 9780316290463

Publisher: Back Bay Books, 1998

Synopsis

April 1803. The Peace of Amiens is breaking down. 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. 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.

About this title

Review:

"No other contemporary writer can equal Forester at this kind of storytelling".

-- Chicago Tribune

Book Description:

The third Horatio Hornblower tale of the sea chronicling the adventures of C. S. Forester's inimitable nautical hero.

About this edition

• Publisher: Back Bay Books
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0316290467
• ISBN 13: 9780316290463
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400