The nineteenth century dawns and the Napoleonic Wars rage as Horatio Hornblower faces the fury of the French and Spanish fleets combined. Amidst the hissing of wet wads, the stifling heat of white-hot cannonshot and the clamour of a mutinous crew, new Lieutenant Hornblower will need all of his seafaring cunning to overcome his first challenge in independent command on the high seas. And while blood and violence flow thick and fast aboard a beleaguered HMS Renown, the aftermath of war promises intrigue of an entirely different order: Maria, a young senorita, who might just soften the steely resolve of a young lieutenant. This is the second of eleven books chronicling the adventures of C. S. Forester's inimitable nautical hero, Horatio Hornblower.
- ISBN10 0316290637
- ISBN13 9780316290630
- Publish Date 16 November 1998 (first published 1 January 1952)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Little, Brown & Company
- Imprint Back Bay Books
- Format Paperback
- Pages 313
- Language English