June, 1808 and off the Coast of Nicaragua Captain Horatio Hornblower has his hands full Now in command of HMS Lydia, a thirty-six-gun frigate, Hornblower has instructions to form an alliance against the Spanish colonies with a mad and messianic revolutionary, El Supremo; 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. And as if that wasn t hard enough, Hornblower must also contend with the charms of an unwanted passenger: Lady Barbara Wellesley This is the fifth of eleven books chronicling the adventures of C. S. Forester s inimitable nautical hero, Horatio Hornblower.
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