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Name: Hornblower & the Crisis
Author: C. S. Forester

📘 Hornblower & the Crisis by C. S. Forester

In 1805, Horatio Hornblower acquires confidential dispatches from Bonaparte after a brutal confrontation with a French brig. Rewarded by the admiralty, he is tasked with a perilous espionage mission that illuminates the powder trail leading to the Battle of Trafalgar. Though unfinished at Forester’s death, the novel includes authorial notes indicating how the narrative would conclude. Two additional stories, Hornblower and the Widow McCool and The Last Encounter, bookend the collection by following Hornblower as a young officer and an elderly veteran, respectively. Together, these works finish C. S. Forester’s classic chronicle of the courageous naval hero.

First publish date: 1967

Genre: Adventure Fiction/Action Adventure

Authors: C. S. Forester

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