Flying Colours - Horatio Hornblower Author:C.S. Forester Hornblower was a hunted man, an escaped prisoner-of-war desperately hiding from Napoleon’s soldiers. When he spotted a French cutter idling in the bay, the idea of capturing the ship and sailing to England leaped madly through his brain. It was a wild, reckless scheme, and failure meant immediate death. But in a country swarming with French sold... more »iers ready to shoot him on sight, it was his only chance to get out of France alive.« less