Hornblower and the Atropos: C.S. Forester

A Horatio Hornblower Tale of the Sea.

1805, and Hornblower is both humbled and honoured in quick succession…

After near disaster on board a canal barge, Horatio Hornblower is given his first assignment as Captain, taking charge of the Atropos, a 22-gun sloop that will act as flagship for the funeral procession of Lord Nelson. Soon the Atropos is part of the Mediterranean fleet`s assault upon Napoleon, and Captain Hornblower must execute a bold and daring salvage operation for buried treasure lying deep in Turkish waters. Under the guns of a suspicious port captain and the threat of a Spanish frigate more than double Atropos`s size, Hornblower must steer his ship unscathed and triumphant…

This is the fourth of eleven books chronicling the adventures of C.S. Forester`s inimitable nautical hero, Horation Hornblower.