| Title | : | Beat to Quarters |
|---|---|---|
| Author | : | C.S. Forester |
| Release | : | 2022-12-12 |
| Kind | : | ebook |
| Genre | : | Classics, Books, Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction |
| Size | : | 525657 |
| June 1808, somewhere west of Nicaragua-a site suitable for spectacular sea battles. The Admiralty has ordered Captain Horatio Hornblower, now in command of the thirty-six-gun HMS Lydia, to form an alliance against the Spanish colonial government with an insane Spanish landowner; to find a water route across the Central American isthmus; and "to take, sink, burn or destroy" the fifty-gun Spanish ship of the line Natividad or face court-martial. A daunting enough set of orders-even if the happily married captain were not woefully distracted by the passenger he is obliged to take on in Panama: Lady Barbara Wellesley. |
