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Loyalty: Peacetime (1807) Hornblower forced to make a living at the gaming tables and caught up in a budding romance with his landlady's daughter, Maria. Hornblower goes on a reconnaissance mission that uncovers French perfidy, leading to renewed war. Complications arise when he is betrayed and temporarily imprisoned. Hornblower and Maria get married. Duty: Admiral Pellew's sends Hornblower off in search of his old mate Bracegirdle, whose sloop Grasshopper has gone missing under mysterious circumstances.
About the Author
Andrew Benson (1963) was born by accident near London (UK) and studied at Oxford, Athens and Bologna universities. He has worked as a translator for all the main European and United Nations agencies - work that has taken him to places as wide apart as Washington DC and Manila, Brazzaville and Oslo, plus Brussels, Strasbourg, Bern, Rome, Vienna, Geneva and New York. A keen traveller (he has visited over 60 countries and every continent) he has authored or co-authored a dozen leading travel guide books, specialising in Argentina but also covering Greece, France, Chile and Barcelona. Titles include the Rough Guides to Argentina, Buenos Aires, Chile, Greece, France and the Greek Islands; the Spiral Guide to Barcelona; the Key Guide to Argentina; the City Pack guide to Buenos Aires. He speaks - in addition to his native English - Spanish, French, Portuguese and Greek, with a good knowledge of Italian, Catalan and Russian and some notions of Arabic. His favourite authors include Andre Gide, Mario Vargas Llosa, Jorge Luis Borges and William Dalrymple. His favourite travel moments include watching the sunrise at Angkor Wat; his worst include being the only guest at a remote hotel in the northern Philippines when rivals smashed the place up in the night and he barricaded himself in with the bed.
