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Christian Rodska

AudioFile Golden Voice Christian Rodska's 20-year career in British theatre encompasses radio plays, West End performances, television, and audiobooks. AudioFile has acclaimed Christian's performances of Officers and Gentlmen, by Evelyn Waugh, To Serve Them All Their Days by R. F. Delderfield, Switch Bitch by Roald Dahl, In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin, and Waterland by Graham Swift. Christian's appreciation of and facility with the satire of Waugh and Dahl make them among his personal favourites.

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Title:

Hornblower and the Atropos

Series:

Hornblower #5

Written by:

C.S. Forester 

Read by:

Christian Rodska 

Format:

Unabridged CD Audio Book 

Number of CDs:

10 

Duration:

10 hours 35 minutes 

Published:

March 28 2017 

Available Date:

March 28 2017 

Age Category:

Adult 

ISBN:

9781489386830 

Genres:

Fiction; Historical Fiction 

Publisher:

Bolinda/Audible audio 

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‘No other contemporary writer can equal Forester at this kind of storytelling.’
Chicago Tribune

The fourth of 11 books chronicling the adventures of C. S. Forester's inimitable nautical hero, Horatio Hornblower.

1805, and Hornblower is both humbled and honoured in quick succession ... After near disaster on board a canal barge, Horatio Hornblower is given his first assignment as Captain, taking charge of the Atropos, a 22-gun sloop that will act as flagship for the funeral procession of Lord Nelson. Soon the Atropos is part of the Mediterranean fleet's assault upon Napoleon, and Captain Hornblower must execute a bold and daring salvage operation for buried treasure lying deep in Turk waters. Under the guns of a suspicious port captain and the threat of a Spanish frigate more than double Atropos's size, Hornblower must steer his ship unscathed and triumphant ...