Hornblower and the Hotspur

Forester, C.S.: 1962 Michael Joseph London, hardcover with dust jacket 286 pages. Hornblower and the Hotspur is a Horatio Hornblower novel by C.S. Forester set in 1803–1804, in which newly promoted Commander Hornblower takes charge of the sloop HMS Hotspur at the very moment the fragile Peace of Amiens collapses and Britain resumes war against Napoleonic France. Stationed off Brest on blockade duty, he conducts perilous night reconnaissances and cutting‑out expeditions that thwart a French attempt to send invasion troops towards Ireland, all while wrestling with an ill‑considered marriage to Maria, constant money worries and his own crippling self‑doubt beneath an outwardly flawless professional façade. In very good condition