Hornblower And The Crisis Av C.S. Forester

<p><b>A Horatio Hornblower Tale of the Sea<br></b><br><b>In the final instalment of the Horatio Hornblower series we visit some lesser known adventures across our hero''s long career, including Napoleon''s plans to invade England . . .</b><br><br>1805 and Horatio Hornblower is in possession of confidential dispatches from Bonaparte after a vicious hand-to-hand encounter with a French brig. The admiralty rewards Hornblower by sending him on a dangerous espionage mission that will light the powder trail leading to the battle of Trafalgar . . .<br><br><i>Hornblower and the Crisis</i> was unfinished at the time of Forester''s death, but the author left notes - included here - telling us how the tale would end. Also included are two further stories - <i>Hornblower and the Widow McCool</i> and <i>The Last Encounter</i> - that tell of Hornblower as a very young and very old man, respectively.<br><br>This is the eleventh and final book chronicling the adventures of C. S. Forester''s inimitable