Hornblower and the Crisis

Hornblower and the Crisis

Fiction & Poetry, Modern & Contemporary Fiction
Paperback Published on: 14/06/2018
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Synopsis

A Horatio Hornblower Tale of the Sea

In the final instalment of the Horatio Hornblower series we visit some lesser known adventures across our hero's long career, including Napoleon's plans to invade England . . .

1805 and Horatio Hornblower is in possession of confidential dispatches from Bonaparte after a vicious hand-to-hand encounter with a French brig. The admiralty rewards Hornblower by sending him on a dangerous espionage mission that will light the powder trail leading to the battle of Trafalgar . . .

Hornblower and the Crisis was unfinished at the time of Forester's death, but the author left notes - included here - telling us how the tale would end. Also included are two further stories - Hornblower and the Widow McCool and The Last Encounter - that tell of Hornblower as a very young and very old man, respectively.

This is the eleventh and final book chronicling the adventures of C. S. Forester's inimitable nautical hero, Horatio Hornblower.

'The true master of the genre' Boris Johnson

  • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
  • ISBN: 9781405936965
  • Number of pages: 176
  • Weight: 131g
  • Dimensions: 198 x 130 x 11 mm

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Hornblower and the Crisis
Great series
I loved this series. Very well written adventure stories with great characters that take you from hornblower's first days in the navy to the near end of hi... READ MORE
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