{"product_id":"beat-to-quarters","title":"Beat to Quarters","description":"Called \"as gripping and realistic a sea tale as you are likely to run across\" by the New York Times, C. S. Forester's Beat to Quarters finds Hornblower faced with a near-impossible mission off the coast of Nicaragua.\n\nJune 1808, somewhere west of Nicaragua -- a site suitable for spectacular sea battles. The Admiralty has ordered Captain Horatio Hornblower, now in command of the thirty-six-gun HMS Lydia, to form an alliance against the Spanish colonial government with an insane Spanish landowner; 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. A daunting enough set of orders -- even if the happily married captain were not woefully distracted by the passenger he is obliged to take on in Panama: Lady Barbara Wellesley.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0316289329\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: BVV.0316289329.VG\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Very Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Forester, C. S.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Book has little sign of wear or use  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Blue Vase Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43317767733309,"sku":"BVV.0316289329.VG","price":5.89,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0589\/4225\/9261\/files\/0316289329-0.jpg?v=1783030050","url":"https:\/\/www.bluevasebooks.com\/products\/beat-to-quarters","provider":"Blue Vase Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}