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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.
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This is the third of eleven books chronicling the nautical adventures of C. S. Forester’s inimitable hero, Horatio Hornblower.
Please Note: The Hornblower Saga is titled in order of the narrative’s chronology rather than the order in which the books were published.
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