Used book – The Happy Return: Captain Hornblower, Cecil Scott Forester, René Robert, Louis Guilloux

After the Battle of Trafalgar, the British Royal Navy entrusts a secret mission to Horatio Hornblower, its most daring captain: aboard the Lydia, he must sail to Nicaragua to forge an alliance against the Spanish colonists. With the help of a furious revolutionary, El Supremo, he must seize a fifty-gun enemy galleon. But his mission is suddenly compromised when England forms an alliance with Spain. At the same time, the unexpected arrival of a woman, Lady Barbara Wellesley, causes unrest on the ship. If he fails, Hornblower will face a court-martial... A popular success of the 20th century, Beat to Quarters is the first story in the adventures of Horatio Hornblower, which continue with Ship of the Line and Flying Colours.