{"product_id":"beat-to-quarters-2","title":"Beat to Quarters","description":"\u003cb\u003eCalled \"as gripping and realistic a sea tale as you are likely to run across\" by the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times, \u003c\/i\u003eC. S. Forester's \u003ci\u003eBeat to Quarters\u003c\/i\u003e finds Hornblower faced with a near-impossible mission off the coast of Nicaragua. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e June 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 \u003ci\u003eLydia\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 \u003ci\u003eNatividad\u003c\/i\u003e 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.","brand":"OUATB","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48581833752831,"sku":"*R0101098*","price":4.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0487\/5550\/7364\/files\/16376203482300_4e0454ed-08c4-41d9-a9d9-3883bc8ac4ac.jpg?v=1779726789","url":"https:\/\/shop.onceuponatimebooks.com\/products\/beat-to-quarters-2","provider":"Once Upon a Time Books AR","version":"1.0","type":"link"}